Tagawa Matsu

Lady Tagawa
Tagawa Matsu and young Koxinga (Koxinga Ancestral Shrine, Tainan, Taiwan)
Born(1601-10-03)October 3, 1601
Hirado,[1] Tokugawa shogunate, Japan
DiedJanuary 5, 1647(1647-01-05) (aged 45)
Anping (now called Anhai), Fujian, Southern Ming dynasty, China
SpouseZheng Zhilong
ChildrenKoxinga, Shichizaemon[2]
Parent(s)Tagawa Shichizaemon (father)[2]
Weng Yihuang (step-father)

Tagawa Matsu (田川マツ; 1601–1647) or Weng-shi (翁氏), was the mother of Koxinga,[3] daughter of Tagawa Shichizaemon (田川七左衛門), a vassal of Hirado Domain. She was a Japanese who lived most of her life in the coastal town of Hirado, then later migrated to China.

  1. ^ Contemporary Japan: A Review of Japanese Affairs. Foreign affairs association of Japan. January 1943. p. 331.
  2. ^ a b "1.鄭成功の足跡と鄭成功が結ぶ友好国" (in Japanese). Tei-Sei-Kou Memorial Museum. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
  3. ^ Richard Arthur Brabazon Ponsonby-Fane (1962). Sovereign and Subject. Ponsonby Memorial Society. p. 452.