![]() No Vacation from WritingĪt times, one of us in the office would pick up the phone at work to be greeted by a gruff voice announcing: “Hello, Matsumoto speaking.” It’s not an uncommon name, and in another context one might have expected the caller to identify himself a little more precisely. ![]() He underwent successful brain surgery, but while he was in the hospital doctors discovered signs of advanced liver cancer, and he died on August 4 that year. He was rushed to the hospital, leaving his favorite Mont Blanc fountain pen and the manuscript he was working on abandoned on his desk. On April 20, 1992, Matsumoto collapsed at home from a brain hemorrhage. Among the exhibits on display is the unfinished manuscript of the novel he was working on when he died: a mystery set in historical times that turned out to be the last piece on which I collaborated as his editor at Shūkan Shinchō. ![]() He is commemorated by a museum in the town of his birth (now part of the Kita-Kyūshū conurbation). ![]() Matsumoto Seichō was born in the town of Kokura in northern Kyūshū on December 21, 1909. ![]()
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