792 bytes added
, 15:01, 8 April 2016
Hasegawa Gonroku served as ''[[Nagasaki bugyo|Nagasaki bugyô]]'' circa [[1621]], and in that year played a significant role in the reception of a formal embassy from [[Ayutthaya]] (Siam).
His family, based in [[Nagasaki]], were samurai retainers to the [[Tokugawa shogunate]], but were also directly involved in the Southeast Asia trade, and held [[shuinsen|red seal ship]] licenses (''shuinjô'') authorizing them in that trade.
{{stub}}
==References==
*Nagazumi Yoko, "Ayutthaya and Japan: Embassies and Trade in the Seventeenth Century," in Kennon Breazeale (ed.), ''From Japan to Arabia: Ayutthaya's Maritime Relations with Asia'', Bangkok: The Foundation for the Promotion of Social Sciences and Humanities Textbooks Project (1999), 90.
[[Category:Samurai]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]