Zheng Chenggong was a great contributor to the battle against the Qing dynasty and the restoration of the Ming dynasty.
His father was Zheng Zhilong, who was the leader of a Chinese merchant group and served the Ming dynasty. His mother was Tagawa Matsu, who was the daughter of a merchant in Hirado. He was called Fukumatsu in his childhood and also had a Chinese name, Zheng Sen. Later on in life, he was given the name Shu, the imperial surname of the Ming dynasty, as well as the title Koxinga, which means “the man of the loyal name”.
He longed for the restoration of the Ming dynasty and fought against the Qing dynasty until he died of illness. He is well known to Japanese people as the inspiration for the protagonist of a play written by Chikamatsu Monzaemon.
The Zheng Chenggong Memorial Museum was founded to represent the place he was born and grew up for the first seven years of his life, honor his great achievements, and pass on his legacy to future generations.
Zheng Chenggong Memorial Museum Main Gate
The main gate was built along the pathway leading to The Zheng Chenggong Memorial Museum. 【Completed September 2016】
Zheng Chenggong (Koxinga) Branch Mausoleum
Completed in April 2024.
In 1962, when a ceremony was held in Hirado to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Zheng Chenggong’s passing, his spirit was divided and sent from the Koxinga Temple in Tainan, Taiwan, to be enshrined in Maruyama Park on a hill overlooking the beach with the ‘Birth Stone’ his mother allegedly leaned on when she gave birth. In April 2024, as part of the celebratory projects to commemorate the 400th anniversary of his birth and as a measure to deal with deterioration, a new building was constructed on the site of the residence where Zheng Chenggong was born and raised.
