Sadao Hasegawa (b. 1945 - d. 1999) was a prominent Japanese graphic artist specializing in male erotica. Hasegawa's work, notable for superb technical skills, elaborate and fantastic settings, and incorporating Japanese, Indian, South-East Asian, and African mythology, often turns to extreme sexual situations, bondage, and S&M themes, which, in the context of his stylized fantasy world, attain a nearly sacral intensity.
