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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.

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. While in that position, he is known to have had in-person interactions with [[English East India Company]] factor [[Richard Cocks]], and English sea pilot [[William Adams]], who each visited Ayutthaya. Later, when Kyûzaemon decided to return to Japan, he named [[Yamada Nagamasa]] his successor.

He succeeded [[Arima Sugihiro]] as head of the Japantown in 1610. While in that position, he is known to have had in-person interactions with [[English East India Company]] factor [[Richard Cocks]], and English sea pilot [[William Adams]], who each visited Ayutthaya. Later, when Kyûzaemon decided to return to Japan, he named [[Yamada Nagamasa]] his successor. He last appears in the historical record in [[1619]]; it is therefore unclear just when he stepped down as head of the ''Nihonmachi'', returned to Japan, and/or died.

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==References==

==References==

*Cesare Polenghi, ''Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seventeenth-century Siam''. Bangkok: White Lotus Press (2009), 40-41.

*Cesare Polenghi, ''Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seventeenth-century Siam''. Bangkok: White Lotus Press (2009), 40-42.

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