Kiya Kyuzaemon

Kiya Kyûzaemon was the second head of the Nihonmachi (Japantown) in the Siamese port & capital city of Ayutthaya, beginning in 1610. Little is known about him, and even his name is unclear, appearing in a number of secondary sources under the surname Kii, and/or the given name Kyûemon.

He succeeded Arima Sugihiro as head of the Japantown in 1610, and later, when he decided to return to Japan, he named Yamada Nagamasa his successor.

References

• Cesare Polenghi, Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seventeenth-century Siam. Bangkok: White Lotus Press (2009), 40.