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*''Died: [[1636]]''
Araki Sotarô was a [[Nagasaki]]-based ''[[shuinsen]]'' merchant known for his travels in Southeast Asia and marriage to a daughter of a Vietnamese aristocratic family.
A [[samurai]] originally from [[Higo province]] ([[Kumamoto prefecture|Kumamoto]]), he moved to Nagasaki in [[1588]], and shortly afterwards began sailing to Vietnam, Thailand, and Cambodia. In [[1619]], he returned to Japan with a wife, a daughter of the Ruan family & adopted daughter of the King of [[Annam]] known as Wakaku or Anio in Japanese. He and Wakaku then established a trading emporium at Nagasaki.
The Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture owns a Vietnamese mirror in gilded and lacquer mounting which was first brought to Japan by Wakaku as one of her personal possessions, along with a Japanese manuscript translation of an original letter from the Ruan family to Araki.
Araki and his wife are buried in Nagasaki; their gravesite at the temple of [[Daion-ji]] has been designated a city cultural property.
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==References==
*Matt Matsuda, ''Pacific Worlds'', University of Cambridge Press (2012), 89.
*"[http://masterpieces.asemus.museum/masterpiece/detail.nhn?objectId=10663 Mirror from Vietnam, owned by lady Araki Sotaro]," Virtual Collection of Asian Masterpieces, 2013.
[[Category:Samurai]]
[[Category:Sengoku Period]]
[[Category:Merchants]]
Araki Sotarô was a [[Nagasaki]]-based ''[[shuinsen]]'' merchant known for his travels in Southeast Asia and marriage to a daughter of a Vietnamese aristocratic family.
A [[samurai]] originally from [[Higo province]] ([[Kumamoto prefecture|Kumamoto]]), he moved to Nagasaki in [[1588]], and shortly afterwards began sailing to Vietnam, Thailand, and Cambodia. In [[1619]], he returned to Japan with a wife, a daughter of the Ruan family & adopted daughter of the King of [[Annam]] known as Wakaku or Anio in Japanese. He and Wakaku then established a trading emporium at Nagasaki.
The Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture owns a Vietnamese mirror in gilded and lacquer mounting which was first brought to Japan by Wakaku as one of her personal possessions, along with a Japanese manuscript translation of an original letter from the Ruan family to Araki.
Araki and his wife are buried in Nagasaki; their gravesite at the temple of [[Daion-ji]] has been designated a city cultural property.
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==References==
*Matt Matsuda, ''Pacific Worlds'', University of Cambridge Press (2012), 89.
*"[http://masterpieces.asemus.museum/masterpiece/detail.nhn?objectId=10663 Mirror from Vietnam, owned by lady Araki Sotaro]," Virtual Collection of Asian Masterpieces, 2013.
[[Category:Samurai]]
[[Category:Sengoku Period]]
[[Category:Merchants]]
