Takashi Matsumoto (松本隆 Matsumoto Takashi?, born July 16, 1949 in Aoyama, Tokyo) is a Japanese lyricist and former musician. He was a member of the pioneering rock band Happy End, for which he played the drums and wrote lyrics. Before Happy End he was in the short-lived but influential psychedelic rock band Apryl Fool, going by the alias Reiji Matsumoto.