Itoya Taemon

Itoya Taemon was a prominent and wealthy deerskin trader in the Siamese port city of Ayutthaya, and served for a time as head of the city's Japantown.

References

• William Wray, “The Seventeenth-century Japanese Diaspora: Questions of Boundary and Policy,” in Ina Baghdiantz McCabe et al (eds.), Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks, Oxford: Berg (2005), 79.