Kiyohari Matsumoto

Matsumoto Kiyozhang was born into a family of merchants in Kokura City, Kitakyushu. Due to his poor family, he dropped out of school at an early age. He was forced to drop out of school to make a living at the age of 13. He worked as a street vendor and apprentice, and also worked as an advertising cartographer for the Western Branch of Asahi Shimbun in Kokura. He was drafted into the army in 1943 and driven to North Korea to serve as a medical soldier. After the war, he was sent back home and reinstated in a newspaper. In the early post-war period, when Japan's economy was depressed, he had to travel between Kansai and Kyushu to wholesale brooms in order to support a family of seven. In his literary memoir "Half Life"(1966), he vividly described this bitter past. Matsumoto's long-term life of discrimination and humiliation provided a real social and psychological basis for his ideological development. His "The Biography of a Certain" Kokura Diary "(1952)," Chrysanthemum Pillow "(1953)," Broken Monument "(1954), etc., all show the times and social life through the life paths and failed destiny of characters in adversity.

Matsumoto Kiyozhang is a prolific writer who only studied primary school but became a late bloomer. Before he was 40, he lived a repressive life of poverty. He wrote an autobiography "A Life of Half a Life", which vividly described the 40 years of poverty and bitterness of life, which made people cry. After the age of 40, Kiyoshi Matsumoto's literary talents were explored and developed, and he successively wrote "Bota". "The Road of the Silent Beast","Deep Ocean Current","Flag of Fog","Yellow Terroir","The Price of Women","Elope","The Pop Color of Death","New","Potential Murderous Murder","The Haunted House of the Turtle Hotel","The Painter Who Murdered the Lovers","The Forehead and Teeth", etc., with more than 200 works. In addition to writing mystery novels, he also wrote reportage "Black Fog of Japan" and "Exploration of the History of Showa", and was engaged in the study of ancient mysterious case materials. He wrote academic monographs such as "Ancient Doubts of History" and "Travel History Doubts".

Some people once thought that Matsumoto Kiyozhang was a pure literary novelist, but later became a mystery novelist, which greatly regretted it. However, Matsumoto Kiyozhang had his own point of view. He believed that the readership of pure literature was too narrow and only scholars studied it. Whether it is pure literature or popular literature, the final determination of its value must be tested by a wide range of readers. Because of this, Matsumoto Kiyozhang's works have a wide range of readers and become the third master of detective fiction after Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.