(1571? – 1656) was an early Christian in Japan. By birth Ōmura Sono, she took the Christian name . The fifth daughter of Christian ''

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Ōmura Sumitada Ōmura Sumitada (大村純忠, 1533 – June 23, 1587) was a Japanese ''daimyō'' lord of the Sengoku period. He became famous throughout the country for being the first of the daimyo to convert to Christianity following the arrival of th ...

, she was the wife of

Matsura Hisanobu was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the late Azuchi–Momoyama period through early Edo period, who ruled the Hirado Domain of Hizen Province. His wife, Mencia, was the daughter of the famous Christian daimyo, Ōmura Sumitada (whose territory was n ...

and the mother of

Matsura Takanobu or Taqua Nombo was a 16th-century Japanese samurai and 25th hereditary lord of the Matsura clan of Hirado. He was one of the most powerful feudal lords of Kyūshū and one of the first to allow trading with Europeans, particularly the Portu ...

. Portraits dating to 1653 by

Kanō Yasunobu Kanō Yasunobu (, 10 January 1614 – 1 October 1685) was a Japanese painter of the Kanō school of painting during the Edo period. He was the third son of Kanō Takanobu, who had been head of the school, and succeeded Kanō Sadanobu as h ...

of Shōtō-in, of her son (the

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of Takanobu), and of her second daughter are preserved in the

Matsura Historical Museum opened in Hirado, Nagasaki, Hirado, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, in 1955. The museum is housed in the 1893 Tsurugamine Mansion of the Matsura clan, Matsura family, former ''daimyō'' of the Hirado Domain. See also * List of Cultural Properties o ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shoto-in Matsura clan 1570s births 1656 deaths Japanese Roman Catholics Year of birth uncertain