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Wada Rizaemon was a prominent Japanese trader in Southeast Asia in the early years of the 17th century.
A Japanese [[Christianity|Christian]], he fled to [[Macao]] when the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] issued bans on Christianity in [[1614]]. He later found work as an agent for a Portuguese vessel, trading chiefly in raw [[silk]] in the ports of [[Quang Nam]]. He then relocated to [[Tonkin]], where he established himself in the silk and [[copper]] trades, and eventually gained a position in the [[Le Dynasty]] imperial court.
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==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.
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