Shirahama Kenki was a Japanese pirate/raider (''[[wako|wakô]]'') of the late 16th-early 17th centuries, the first Japanese with whom the southern Vietnamese kingdom of the Nguyen lords made contact. | Shirahama Kenki was a Japanese pirate/raider (''[[wako|wakô]]'') of the late 16th-early 17th centuries, the first Japanese with whom the southern Vietnamese kingdom of the Nguyen lords made contact. |