Daikokuya Kôdayû was a fisherman from Shiroko, in [[Ise province]], who became perhaps the most prominent [[Edo period]] Japanese to spend time in Russia, and to report back to the shogunate about that country. | Daikokuya Kôdayû was a fisherman from Shiroko, in [[Ise province]], who became perhaps the most prominent [[Edo period]] Japanese to spend time in Russia, and to report back to the shogunate about that country. |