  ASCA observations of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 7582 revealed it was highly
variable on the timescale of $\sim2\times10^4$ s in the hard X-ray (2-10 keV)
band, while the soft X-ray (0.5-2 keV) flux remained constant during the
observations.
  The spectral analysis suggests that this object is seen through an obscuring
torus with the thickness of N$_{\rm H}\sim1.0\times 10^{23}\rm cm^{-2}$. The
hard X-ray is an absorbed direct continuum from a hidden Seyfert 1 nucleus; the
soft X-ray is dominated by the scattered central continuum from an extended
spatial region. Thus we have an obscured/absorbed and a scattered view of this
source as expected from the unification model for Seyfert galaxies.
  More interestingly, the inferred X-ray column was observed to increase by
$\sim4\times10^{22} \rm cm^{-2}$ from 1994 to 1996, suggesting a ``patchy''
torus structure, namely the torus might be composed of many individual clouds.
The observed iron line feature near 6.4 keV with the equivalent width of 170 eV
is also consistent with the picture of the transmission of nuclear X-ray
continuum through a non-uniform torus.
