Yamada Nagamasa

Japanese adventurer

1590 CE to 1630 CE

Yamada Nagamasa (1590—1630) is a Japanese adventurer who gains considerable influence in Thailand at the beginning of the 17th century and becomes the governor of the Nakhon Si Thammarat province in southern Thailand.

Yamada Nagamasa was born in Numazu in 1590.

He is said to have been a palanquin bearer of the lord of Numazu.

He became involved in Japanese trade activities with South-East Asia during the period of the Red seal ships and settled in the kingdom of Ayutthaya (modern-day Thailand) from around 1612.

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