Author | Monchi's Bookshelf (Kong.com Store: Mengqi's Bookshelf Bookstand)
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#Old Books Say# Lu Xun's Last Attending Physician - Sudo 503 (Picture 1)
Sudo 503 (1876-1959) was a native of Shimohara Village, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Okayama No. 3 High School in 1897 and later worked as a Japanese army doctor in Beijing and Taipei; in 1918, he opened a hospital in Shanghai, where his brother was doing business, and later became an attending physician for neiyama bookstore colleagues and Lu Xun's family.
A look at Lu Xun's diary shows that from October 1932 until Lu Xun's death, Sudo's name appeared more than 160 times. After Japan's defeat in the war, Sudo returned to his hometown to continue practicing medicine.
Since Sudo had served as a Japanese army doctor, Zhou Jianren also said that Sudo had been the vice president of the "Shanghai Soldiers' Association in the Countryside", especially Zhou Haiying's article published in Harvest magazine quoted the content of Zhou Jianren's letter to Xu Guangping in July 1949, saying that Zhou Jianren and Xu Guangping had been suspicious of Sudo until his old age, and Lu Xun's death was actually due to Suto's misdiagnosis. Some of the Chinese even suspected that Sudo was a Japanese agent, and Lu Xun's death was inseparable from him.
In fact, it was Lu Xun himself who chose Dr. Sudo. From May 1936 onwards, Lu Xun's condition began to deteriorate, and after that, he had to ask Sudo to come for treatment almost every day. Lu Xun's friend and American journalist Agnes Smedley once helped Lu Xun hire an American doctor, Duncan, but Lu Xun finally refused Smedley's kindness, and he chose Sudo to continue to treat himself.
After Lu Xun's death, Sudo published an article entitled "Lu Xun Seen by Doctors" in Shanghai's Japanese newspaper Shanghai Daily for three consecutive days. After Sudo's article was translated into Chinese, it was published in the book "Mr. Lu Xun Memorial Collection" (published in Shanghai in 1937), and the title of the article was "Mr. Lu Xun Seen by Medical People". Unfortunately, this translation is not in its entirety.
Lu Xun's last letter to Neishan Guanzao (1885-1959, Figure 2, opening the Neishan Bookstore at the bottom of North Sichuan Road, Lu Xun's close friend) was written in Japanese and translated into Chinese:
The boss a few times:
I didn't expect to catch my breath again in the middle of the night. So the ten o'clock date can't go, sorry.
Please hang up Mr. Sudo and ask him to take a look. Sloppy head.
The payment is "L Bai October 18th"
Lu Xun died the next day.
The book "Wine" written by Sudo 503 was published in 1939, nearly three years after Lu Xun's death. The book was distributed by neishan Bookstore, which was already opened on Shigaota Road (now the intersection of Shanyin Road, North Sichuan Road, Figures 5 and 6).
Sudo was nine years older than Uchiyama, but both died in the same year in 1959. Neishan was buried at the Shanghai All Nations Cemetery.
To this day, the descendants of Uchiyama's complete construction still open the Uchiyama Bookstore in Japan (Picture 7, the signboard is inscribed by Guo Moruo).