Japanese artist
 was a Japanese homoerotic fetish artist. Tatsuji, along with Go Mishima, Sanshi Funayama, and Go Hirano, is regarded by artist and historian Gengoroh Tagame as a central figure in the first wave of contemporary gay artists in Japan.
Biography.
Okawa lived in the Kanto region, where in his private life he had a wife, children, and white-collar job, and would rent hotel rooms in Shinjuku to draw. Okawa was nearly 60 years old when his career as an erotic artist began in earnest, when he was published in a 1964 issue of "Fuzokukitan", a fetish magazine that published gay content alongside straight and lesbian content. He would later be published in the magazine "Barazoku".
Okawa quit illustration in the 1970s, and gave his artist materials to Mamiya Hiroshi, an editor at "Fuzokukitan". Upon his death in 1994, his works were acquired by Hiroshi and Bungaku Itō, the founding editor of "Barazoku".
The writer Yukio Mishima was a fan of Okawa's, and reportedly commissioned Okawa to draw a portrait of Mishima being tortured.
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