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Yamada married a young woman from the royal family, and set himself to ruling his new territory. However, acting as an agent of Prasat Thom's agendas, his new wife poisoned him, applying poisoned plasters to a leg wound Yamada suffered while suppressing the rebellion. He died shortly afterwards, in 1630.
Yamada married a young woman from the royal family, and set himself to ruling his new territory. However, acting as an agent of Prasat Thom's agendas, his new wife poisoned him, applying poisoned plasters to a leg wound Yamada suffered while suppressing the rebellion. He died shortly afterwards, in 1630.
==Aftermath==
Nagamasa's son Oin succeeded him as king of Ligor, and as head of Nagamasa's army of Japanese forces. Before long, however, amid local uprisings, Oin and his men fled to Cambodia, possibly merging into the Japanese community there. Meanwhile, Nagamasa's red-seal-licensed junk returned to Ayutthaya from its last trip to Japan; Prasat Thong attempted to have the ship seized, and the people of the ''Nihonmachi'' opposed him. Whether in the conflict over this particular incident, or due to Prasat Thong's fears of Japanese opposition or rebellion more broadly, the ''Nihonmachi'' was burned down. Some sixty or seventy members of the community fled to Japan, while the rest remained, and rebuilt, under a new headman, Iwakura Heyemon.
The next few years brought numerous difficulties and conflicts for the Japanese community of Ayutthaya. Conflict between the resident Japanese and royal forces in the immediate aftermath of the burning of the Japantown culminated in a naval battle, and in some number of Japanese fleeing overseas to return to Japan. Later that same year, the Cambodian navy attacked Ayutthaya, quite possibly with the help of Oin and his men (formerly, Nagamasa's men). Many of the men, and other members of the Japanese community, were slaughtered by Prasat Thong's royal forces, but some number of them switched sides and rejoined the royal guard.
Some number of Japanese returned to Ayutthaya directly from Ligor, and though Prasat Thong's efforts to reverse his policies and welcome them in [[1632]] did not see much of a lively response, from [[1633]] onward the community gradually began to recover.
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