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An illustrated historical survey of punishment in Japan, especially Edo-period criminal law, interrogation, torture, execution, and the implements used to restrain and punish offenders, with comparisons to older and foreign practices. The article also recounts...

This literary essay examines the women in Izumi Kyōka’s fiction, recounting characters whose beauty, desire, loyalty, and social constraints lead them through tragic romances, violence, captivity, and death. Accompanying illustrations visualize scenes of restr...

A richly illustrated historical erotic adventure follows a group of seekers pursuing a legendary incense burner and hidden treasure associated with Amakusa Shirō, amid village intrigue, betrayal, pursuit, cave exploration, and repeated abduction and rope restr...

A serialized historical erotic fiction narrative follows Sado-based characters through schemes, captivity, coercion, punishment, and violent romantic entanglements, accompanied by dramatic erotic illustrations.

An index of Uramado back issues lists prior issue dates, titles, fiction and visual features, special sections, prices, and ordering information.

An Edo-period erotic tale follows Koyuki as she is drawn into a coercive encounter with a samurai, emphasizing abduction, restraint, humiliation, and female submission within a historical setting.

This serialized erotic fantasy follows artist Yoshida and model Reiko through increasingly coercive sessions involving nude modeling, altered consciousness, restraint, and psychological domination, blurring artistic practice with sadistic sexual control.

An Edo-period erotic novella follows the beautiful Mihoyo, whose relationships with her husband, an artist, and other men lead to escalating scenes of obsession, abduction, rope restraint, humiliation, and punishment, accompanied by dramatic erotic illustratio...

This illustrated supernatural crime tale follows a private detective investigating Rosita, a mysterious woman linked to murder, theft, hypnotic manipulation, and a talismanic Kangiten image. The investigation leads through secret rooms, sexual coercion, captiv...

A serialized erotic-horror story about the sinister physician Suda, whose secret medicines, deception, and coercive “treatments” lead to the abduction, binding, gagging, and sexualized abuse of women. The narrative combines occult medical fantasy with scenes o...

An illustrated serialized SM story follows a woman captured and restrained by a physically imposing man, with rope bondage, coercion, escape attempts, and escalating confrontations involving additional captors. The narrative alternates between eroticized capti...

A photographic feature presents a series of posed nude studies, emphasizing the body, dramatic lighting, sculptural composition, and carefully arranged erotic imagery.

A first-person confession examines a woman’s life with a husband who subjects her to increasingly elaborate bondage, discipline, collars, ropes, and other forms of control, while she reflects on desire, shame, fear, dependency, and whether she is truly a masoc...

An Edo-period supernatural erotic tale follows the diviner 彦兵衛 and the young お千代 as occult predictions, ghostly apparitions, possession, and increasingly elaborate acts of binding draw a household into a terrifying web of desire, violence, and death.

An illustrated Edo-period supernatural tale follows characters caught in a chain of occult curses, sinister apparitions, violent confrontations, and the mysterious “blind doll,” blending eroticized peril with grotesque horror. The narrative is accompanied by d...

A first-person gothic mystery begins when a cryptic letter draws the narrator into an unsettling household, where strange instructions, sinister encounters, and gruesome deaths gradually reveal a macabre chain of violence.

A historical erotic fantasy follows rival figures whose jealousy and revenge culminate in a supernatural curse enacted through a straw effigy, needles, poison, and ritualized bodily torment. The narrative combines samurai-era intrigue with elaborate scenes of...

This sensational erotic crime narrative follows a woman and her associates as murder, concealment of a corpse, digging, pursuit, and threats unfold amid domestic and romantic conflict. Its scenes emphasize coercion, fear, bodily vulnerability, and violent reve...

A supernatural erotic story set around an illusionist’s curious town, where visions of drowned women, mannequins, paintings, and uncanny transformations blur the boundary between reality and fantasy.

An illustrated erotic fantasy in which an artist’s encounter with an imagined foreign woman develops into a sequence of scenes depicting her capture, chaining, immobilization, and submission.

A first-person narrator investigates a Tohoku curse song and recounts encounters with an unsettling old house, a troubled family, and a series of uncanny incidents linked to regional folklore and occult beliefs.

An Edo-period supernatural revenge narrative follows a woman and her adversaries through curses, occult rites, disguises, violence, and schemes for retribution, accompanied by dramatic illustrations.

Sugimoto Shun surveys overseas witchcraft, devil worship, curses, séances, and occult magic through sensational murder reports, ritual accounts, and discussions of supernatural fiction. Illustrated episodes of nude women dancing and apparent possession connect...

A serialized erotic narrative follows Tomoe and other married women through clandestine encounters, voyeuristic observation, seduction, blackmail, and humiliating sexual entanglements within a late-Edo-style merchant setting. Illustrated scenes emphasize secre...

An illustrated historical-literary essay traces the motif of the beautiful young man’s seppuku through early-modern tales and legends, recounting doomed love, male-male bonds, loyalty, revenge, and ritual death in stories such as “Ichiyō no Koi,” “Mokuzu Monog...

This illustrated serialized espionage fantasy follows the female agent Loi after her capture by enemy forces, depicting interrogation, coercive restraint, bondage devices, sensory and electrical punishments, and her eventual rescue by allied soldiers.

This historical erotic fantasy follows pirates who seize women on a mysterious island ruled by powerful female guardians, whose violent, supernatural authority overwhelms and ultimately destroys their captors.

Two reader essays reflect on the issue’s stories, illustrations, photographs, and editorial choices, combining personal reactions with criticism and requests for future erotic material.

A serialized erotic mystery follows a woman haunted by memories and visions of her dead older sister, whose romantic entanglements, swordplay, and violent fate blur the boundaries between recollection, fantasy, and reality.

This illustrated detective-horror story sends an investigator into a sinister house, where locked rooms, strange slug-like traces, blood, suspicious residents, and a possible murder create an atmosphere of grotesque erotic menace.

An illustrated serialized erotic crime fantasy follows Oryū and Chōtarō as they become entangled with the Black Snake gang through gambling, pursuit, abduction, rope restraint, and supernatural menace.

An erotic fantasy follows Emmy and Ralph as a mysterious mirror becomes a device for revealing, observing, and reshaping intimate scenes, blending secrecy, pursuit, coercion, and illusion.

Suzuki Kazuo surveys sensational Edo-period anecdotes drawn from historical writings, combining accounts of strange creatures, curses, ghosts, and other supernatural incidents with stories of prostitutes, brothels, illicit desire, arrests, punishment, and soci...

A serialized illustrated espionage fantasy follows a female intelligence agent infiltrating enemy territory, being captured, and enduring interrogation, confinement, forced undressing, physical restraint, and humiliating abuse before attempting escape and resc...

A serialized first-person account of prison life follows inmates through intake, solitary confinement, labor, discipline, meals, entertainment, family contact, pardon procedures, and the emotional pressures of incarceration, including male same-sex relationshi...

A serialized sensational erotic crime narrative follows Osawa through encounters involving coercion, restraint, sexual menace, and repeated dagger attacks, culminating in revenge and murder. The continuing story shifts between violent confrontations and scenes...

A crime-mystery narrative follows the investigation of a strangled woman discovered bound to a bizarre “gallows bed,” with shifting testimonies, suspects, and clues involving rope restraint and sexual intrigue.

A fictionalized visit to a strange museum presents an eccentric collection of historical, foreign, and fetish-related objects while exploring their uses, origins, and the unsettling fascination they hold for visitors.

A serialized erotic narrative follows Snowe, a woman celebrated for her exceptionally long black hair, through courtship, marriage, jealousy, and increasingly coercive and violent fantasies surrounding male desire and control.

A serialized grotesque horror tale follows two traveling medicine merchants who enter a secluded former Heike settlement, where an uncanny female-led community subjects men to bizarre restraints, punishments, and transformations before the travelers struggle t...