This is a 1-story high-class apartment, and the window overlooks the beautiful scenery of Izu Peninsula and Sagami Bay. Room 417 on the fourth floor of the apartment is used as a workshop by Yasunari Kawabata, the second Nobel Prize in Literature laureate in Asia and a famous Japanese writer. He comes here once or twice a week. At 3 pm on April 16th, 1972, Yasunari Kawabata came to the apartment again. At about 9: 5, someone found the smell of gas coming from Kawabata Yasunari's room. Apartment manager Ebinuma Zhenxiong and others pushed open the door, and a strong smell of gas came head-on. After entering the room for inspection, I found Kawabata Yasunari lying on the floor of the bathroom.
Soon, Honda Zhengping, the attending doctor of Kawabata Yasunari, arrived. Although the writer's pulse had stopped, Dr. Honda still took oxygen. Hope for a miracle, but to no avail. On-site
The post-mortem forensic doctor Tadashio Ichiro later told the reporter of Women's Own magazine about his arrival at the scene:
"Kawabata Yasunari was lying on the floor with his head facing the ceramic tile washbasin and his right side down. He has a rubber oxygen tube stuck in his nose. After examining the lividity, pupils, subcutaneous bleeding, etc., it is obvious that he committed suicide by inhaling gas.
The back turns bright red due to blood stasis, which is a unique symptom of gas poisoning victims. According to my on-site autopsy, he died for about 4 hours, that is to say, at about 6 pm. The expression of the deceased was calm, even giving people a sense of complete death. “