About Tagawa Matsu
Tagawa Matsu or Weng-shi (翁氏), was the Japanese mother of Southern Ming general Zheng Chenggong, who is better known internationally as Koxinga. She was a daughter of Tagawa Shichizaemon, a vassal samurai of Hirado Domain, but later became the stepdaughter/adopted child to an immigrant Chinese blacksmith. She married Chinese merchant Zheng Zhilong and lived most of her life in the coastal town of Kawachiura in Kyushu, and later died of honor suicide against a Qing attack after migrating to Fujian, China.
- Born
- October 3, 1602
- Died
- January 5, 1647
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