- Maeda Matsu
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In this Japanese name, the family name is "Maeda".Maeda Matsu (前田 まつ) [known in Japan as o-Matsu no Kata (お松の方)](1547–1617) was a Japanese woman of the 16th century. She was the wife of Maeda Toshiie, who founded the Kaga Domain. Matsu had a reputation for intelligence; she was skilled at both literary and martial arts. Her sons—Toshinaga, Toshimasa, Toshitsune, Toshitaka, and Toshitoyo, who were each born throughout Matsu's marriage to Toshiie—were each allowed their own individual title of daimyo and their own private fief.
Cultural Influence
- Actress Matsushima Nanako acted as Maeda Matsu in NHK Taiga drama Toshiie to Matsu in 2002.
- In Tenchijin, one of her sons sells her to Tokugawa Ieyasu in order to live.
- In Sengoku Basara, she fights alongside Toshiie, and occasionally keeps up with his insatiable hunger. She was not playable in the American version.
- She is a female bodyguard in Samurai Warriors 2.
Categories:- 1547 births
- 1617 deaths
- Women in 16th-century warfare
- Women in 17th-century warfare
- Maeda clan
- Japanese women in warfare
- Women of medieval Japan
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