Kadoya Shichirobei - Kadoya Shichirobei

Japanese: 角屋七郎兵衛 - かどや・しちろうべえ

Year of death: 19 January 1672 (17 February 1672)
Year of birth: March 17, 1610 (May 10, 1610)
A trader from the early modern period. His father was Kadoya Shichirojiro (Tadaei) and his mother was the second son of a daughter of the Kamata family. His real surname was Matsumoto and his given name was Eikichi. He was the grandson of Kadoya Shichirojiro Hidemochi of Ise, who earned the trust of Tokugawa Ieyasu. He was involved in trade with Kochi in Annam (Indochina Peninsula) but in 1631 he moved to Feifo in central Annam and played an active role as a leader of the Japanese town and cooperated with the red seal ship trade. His wife was the daughter of the Nguyen family, a member of the family of the Annam king. In 1639, Japanese ships and Japanese people were strictly prohibited from traveling overseas, and Japanese people from overseas were strictly prohibited from returning home, so he remained in Feifo and seems to have engaged in trade with Japan on Annam ships. Shichirobei had siblings and relatives in Nagasaki, Sakai, and Matsusaka, and kept in contact with them. Shichirobei sent several letters to these relatives during the period of national isolation, and the originals remain, and he sent them news and daily necessities, and made appropriate donations to Ise Shrine and other shrines and temples. It is said that 29 Japanese people lived in Feifo during the Enpo era (1673-81). He built Matsumoto Temple in Feifo. After his death, they were buried at Matsumoto Temple and Matsusaka Raigoji Temple on the same site. <References> Nanki Tokugawa History, Volume 7; Kadoya Related Documents (owned by Jingu Chokokan Museum, Ise City); Kuroita Katsumi, "Report on the Survey of Historical Materials Related to Japan in the South Seas" ("Kuroita Katsumi's Writings"); Kawashima Genjiro, "Shuinsen Trade History"; Tsuji Zennosuke, "Abridged Overseas Transportation History"; Iwao Seiichi, "Study of South Seas Japanese Towns"; "Annanki" (edited by Tanaka Hisao, "National Spiritual Culture", Vol. 8, No. 7)

(Yasunao Nakata)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

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没年：寛文12.1.19(1672.2.17)
生年：慶長15.3.17(1610.5.10)
近世初頭の貿易家。父角屋七郎次郎(忠栄)と母鎌田氏の娘の次男。本姓松本氏,名を栄吉。徳川家康から信頼を得た伊勢の角屋七郎次郎秀持の孫。安南国交趾(インドシナ半島)との貿易に従事していたが,寛永8(1631)年同国中部のフェイフォに移住,日本町の指導者として,朱印船貿易に協力して活躍した。妻は安南国王の一族阮氏の娘。同12年日本船および日本人の海外渡航,および海外の日本人の帰国が厳禁されたため,フェイフォに残留し,安南船で日本貿易を行ったようである。七郎兵衛は長崎,堺,松坂に兄弟や親類がおり,彼らと連絡をとっていた。七郎兵衛は鎖国下に数通の書状をこれらの親類に送っていて,その実物を残しており,消息や生活必需物資を送らせたり,伊勢神宮をはじめ神社,仏閣への応分の奉納などを行っている。なおフェイフォに延宝年間(1673～81)29人の日本人が居住していたという。フェイフォに松本寺を建立した。死後現地松本寺および松坂来迎寺に葬る。<参考文献>『南紀徳川史』第7冊,『角屋関係文書集』(伊勢市神宮徴古館蔵),黒板勝美「南洋における日本関係史料調査報告」(『黒板勝美先生遺文』),川島元次郎『朱印船貿易史』,辻善之助『増訂海外交通史話』,岩生成一『南洋日本町の研究』,『安南記』(田中久夫校訂『国民精神文化』8巻7号)

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