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*''Dates: [[1350]]-[[1767]]''
Ayutthaya was a Siamese kingdom known by the name of its capital city. In the 16th to early 17th centuries, Ayutthaya was one of the most powerful and prominent polities in Southeast Asia, and the most prominent Southeast Asian trading partner with Japan and the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]]. It was also home to a short-lived but influential ''[[Nihonmachi]]'' (Japantown) which housed around 800 Japanese, from the 1590s until its destruction in [[1630]].<ref>Geoffrey Gunn, ''History Without Borders: The Making of an Asian World Region, 1000-1800'', Hong Kong University Press (2011), 222.</ref> At its peak, the city of Ayutthaya boasted a population over 100,000.
Ayutthaya faced off against [[Ming Dynasty|Ming]] Chinese armies in the 1580s-1590s,
The ''Nihonmachi'' revived following its destruction in 1630, though it would never again attain its former levels of activity. The imposition of policies of [[kaikin|maritime restrictions]] by the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] in the late 1630s meant that Japanese could no longer return to Japan (and very few left Japan, either, after this time), severing the ''Nihonmachi'' from any infusion of new blood, and severely hampering its economic power. Still, figures such as [[Kimura Hanjemon]], who became head of the community in [[1642]], remained prominent in local trade activities, including supplying the [[Dutch East India Company]] factory in Ayutthaya with deer skins. Another man by the same name, possibly the elder Hanjemon's son, traveled widely across Southeast Asia in the 1680s.<ref>Nagazumi Yoko. "Ayutthaya and Japan: Embassies and Trade in the Seventeenth Century." in Kennon Breazeale (ed.). ''From Japan to Arabia: Ayutthaya's Maritime Relations with Asia''. Bangkok: The Foundation for the Promotion of Social Sciences and Humanities Textbook Project, 1999. pp100-101.</ref>
The Dutch East India Company closed its base in Ayutthaya in [[1663]].
==Kings of Ayutthaya==
*[[Naresuan]] (r. [[1590]]-[[1605]])
*[[Ekathotsarot]] (r. 1605-[[1610]])
*[[Songtham]] (r. 1610-[[1628]])
*[[Prasat Thong]] (r. [[1629]]-)
Ayutthaya was a Siamese kingdom known by the name of its capital city. In the 16th to early 17th centuries, Ayutthaya was one of the most powerful and prominent polities in Southeast Asia, and the most prominent Southeast Asian trading partner with Japan and the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]]. It was also home to a short-lived but influential ''[[Nihonmachi]]'' (Japantown) which housed around 800 Japanese, from the 1590s until its destruction in [[1630]].<ref>Geoffrey Gunn, ''History Without Borders: The Making of an Asian World Region, 1000-1800'', Hong Kong University Press (2011), 222.</ref> At its peak, the city of Ayutthaya boasted a population over 100,000.
Ayutthaya faced off against [[Ming Dynasty|Ming]] Chinese armies in the 1580s-1590s,
The ''Nihonmachi'' revived following its destruction in 1630, though it would never again attain its former levels of activity. The imposition of policies of [[kaikin|maritime restrictions]] by the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] in the late 1630s meant that Japanese could no longer return to Japan (and very few left Japan, either, after this time), severing the ''Nihonmachi'' from any infusion of new blood, and severely hampering its economic power. Still, figures such as [[Kimura Hanjemon]], who became head of the community in [[1642]], remained prominent in local trade activities, including supplying the [[Dutch East India Company]] factory in Ayutthaya with deer skins. Another man by the same name, possibly the elder Hanjemon's son, traveled widely across Southeast Asia in the 1680s.<ref>Nagazumi Yoko. "Ayutthaya and Japan: Embassies and Trade in the Seventeenth Century." in Kennon Breazeale (ed.). ''From Japan to Arabia: Ayutthaya's Maritime Relations with Asia''. Bangkok: The Foundation for the Promotion of Social Sciences and Humanities Textbook Project, 1999. pp100-101.</ref>
The Dutch East India Company closed its base in Ayutthaya in [[1663]].
==Kings of Ayutthaya==
*[[Naresuan]] (r. [[1590]]-[[1605]])
*[[Ekathotsarot]] (r. 1605-[[1610]])
*[[Songtham]] (r. 1610-[[1628]])
*[[Prasat Thong]] (r. [[1629]]-)