Kido Matsuko
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(born ; November 22, 1843 – April 10, 1886), later known as the nun , was a Japanese woman from the late
Edo period The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...
to the
Meiji period The was an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912. The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonizatio ...
. She was formerly a
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under the stage name from Sanbongi, Kyoto. She was the lover (and later the wife) of Katsura Kogorō (later Kido Takayoshi), who would go on to become one of the
Three Great Nobles of the Restoration The is a term used in Japan for three figures that played an important role in the Meiji Restoration in 1868 and are regarded as the founders of the modern state of Japan.『維新元勲十傑論』、16頁 The Three Great Nobles were: * Ōkubo ...
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Matsuko, Kido 1843 births 1886 deaths Geishas People of the Edo period Meiji Restoration 19th-century Japanese actresses 19th-century Japanese women People from Fukui Prefecture