Kido Matsuko

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Japanese. (July 2021) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Japanese article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Japanese Wikipedia article at [[:ja:木戸松子]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|ja|木戸松子}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Kido Matsuko" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (July 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Kido Matsuko
木戸 松子
Kido Matsuko in 1870
Born	Kizaki Kei (1843-11-22)November 22, 1843 Obama Domain, Wakasa Province, Japan
Died	April 10, 1886(1886-04-10) (aged 42) Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Resting place	Kyoto Ryozen Gokoku Shrine, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Other names	Ikumatsu Okabe Matsuko Suikōin
Occupation(s)	nun, noblewoman, former geisha
Era	Edo period, Meiji period
Spouse	Kido Takayoshi ​ ​ (m. 1868; died 1877)​
Children	none
Parents	Kizaki Ichibei (father) Hosokawa Sumi (mother)

Kido Matsuko (木戸 松子) (born Kizaki Kei (木崎 計); November 22, 1843 – April 10, 1886), later known as the nun Suikōin (翠香院), was a Japanese woman from the late Edo period to the Meiji period.^[1][2] She was formerly a geisha under the stage name Ikumatsu (幾松) 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.^[3]