Since several years before his harakiri suicide at Camp Ichigaya, Yukio MISHIMA had made and left pictures of his own image of committing suicide in fundoshi loincloth as well as a movie titled "Yukoku" (Patriotism).
市谷駐屯地での割腹事件の数年前から褌姿で切腹する写真や映画『憂国』を残している。