A traveling exhibition of paintings by the late Sadamichi Hirasawa, convicted for the 1948 "Teigin Incident" mass poisoning, opened at a Tokyo art gallery this week and his adopted son hopes it will stir interest in his request of for a retrial.
The exhibition marks the award-winning painter's death of natural causes in May 1987 at the age of 95 in a prison hospital. He had been sentenced to death in 1950 for the murders.
Of the some 50 displayed works, seven were newly found at antique art shops and other places in Sapporo, Niigata and Tokushima, said Takehiko Hirasawa, 48. The exhibition also includes paintings Hirasawa did in prison.