18 Facts About Tagawa Matsu

Tagawa Matsu was a Japanese who lived most of her life in the coastal town of Hirado, then later migrated to China.

Tagawa Matsu was a Japanese woman from a samurai family in Hirado.

Tagawa Matsu was a few years older than Zheng and she was in her early twenties when they met.

Tagawa Matsu lost his life savings of three coppers on a road and was looking for them but couldn't find them.

Tagawa Matsu started crying but a Japanese widow who was standing inside the gate of her house saw him and asked him what was wrong.

Tagawa Matsu gave birth to Koxinga during a trip with her husband when she was picking seashells on the Senli Beach, Sennai River Bank, Hirado.

Tagawa Matsu was the first woman Zheng fell in love with and they were viewed as having a common-law marriage already.

Tagawa Matsu had another son named Shichizaemon in 1629 and gave him her family's surname, Tagawa.

Tagawa Matsu raised Koxinga in Japan by herself until he was seven, and her closeness with her son is evident in some of the accomplishment and decisions Koxinga made in his adult life.

Tagawa Matsu moved to Anhai despite the Japanese ban on leaving.

Tagawa Matsu is said in one source to have killed herself by stabbing herself in the neck.

The Qing being responsible for killing Tagawa Matsu was something Zheng Zhilong had to live with since he did not know the Qing were going to kill her.

The Qing did not trust him because they were the ones who got Tagawa Matsu killed so he might turn against the Qing if they let him go.

The Zheng family's enemies attacked Tagawa Matsu by suggesting she was a Japanese prostitute Zheng Zhilong picked up, while Tagawa Matsu's Japanese descendants claim she was a descendant of the Japanese Imperial family.

The English diplomat R A B Posonby-Fane pushed the theory that Tagawa was a Japanese woman from a high class Samurai background.

The samurai Tagawa Matsu Yazayemon was an ashigaru according to Hirado folklore and there was nothing else describing him as that according to Inagaki.

Tagawa Matsu moved to Taiwan in 1949 and focuses his work on building stronger ties between Taiwan and mainland China.

Tagawa Matsu is Koxinga's 11th generation descendant and his original name is Zheng Wenji.