Itamiya Sukejiro
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Itamiya Sukejirô was a maritime trader known for contributing to supplying the Shimazu clan armies during Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Korean Invasions.
Though captured in 1601 and charged with piracy, he or his next of kin then relocated to the port city of Sakai (near Osaka) and remained successful into the early Edo period.
References
- Maria Grazia Petrucci, “Caught Between Piracy and Trade: The Shimazu of Southern Japan…”, in Robert Antony and Angela Schottenhammer (eds.), Beyond the Silk Roads, Harrassowitz Verlag (2017), pp104-105.
