Given his frequent use of cords and bondage in his sadomasochistic illustrations, it isn’t surprising to learn that Hasegawa strangled himself with a rope, one end of which was tied to the knob of his hotel room door in Bangkok. The last drawing down is dated exactly a month before his death. He chose to do it a few days before the anniversary of Mishima’s suicide and left behind a miniature portrait of the writer painted on a stone. It was the only object that he brought into the room other than himself and the rope.
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