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Arima Sugihiro is believed to have been the first official head of the ''[[Nihonmachi]]'' (Japantown) in the Siamese city of [[Ayutthaya]]. He may have been from the [[Arima family]] of merchants, who held a [[shuinsen|red seal license]] for trade in [[Champa]].
Sugihiro was succeeded as head of the community by [[Kiya Kyuzaemon|Kiya Kyûzaemon]], in [[1610]].
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==References==
*Cesare Polenghi, ''Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seventeenth-century Siam''. Bangkok: White Lotus Press (2009), 40.
[[Category:Merchants]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
