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*''Born: [[1584]]''
*''Died: [[1603]]''
*''Japanese:'' 茶屋四郎次郎清忠 (''Chaya Shirôjirô Kiyotada'')

Kiyotada was a significant textiles merchant in [[Edo]], and official supplier to the shogunate. He took over the family textile business following the death in [[1596]] of his father, [[Chaya Shirojiro Kiyonobu|Chaya Shirôjirô Kiyonobu]], and, having already served for a time as squire to [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]], succeeded his father in his commercial relationship with the Tokugawa lord. Kiyotada fought at [[battle of Sekigahara|Sekigahara]] (1600), but died young, in 1603, at the age of nineteen. The family business was then taken over by his brother [[Chaya Shirojiro Kiyotsugu|Chaya Shirôjirô Kiyotsugu]].

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==References==
''This article was written by [[User:LordAmeth]] and contributed to both S-A and Wikipedia; the author gives permission for his work to be used in this way.''
*''Chaya Shirōjirō'' in [[Louis Frederic|Frederic, Louis]] (2002). <u>Japan Encyclopedia</u>. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
*[[George Sansom|Sansom, George]] (1963). "A History of Japan: 1615-1867." Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Merchants]]