Tagawa Matsu

Tagawa Matsu (田川マツ; 1601–1647) 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 (田川七左衛門), 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 (modern day Hirado) in Kyushu, and later died of honor suicide against a Qing attack after migrating to Fujian, China.