Silveira, Don Gonçalo de

Japanese: シルベイラ（英語表記）Silveira， Don Gonçalo de

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[Died] 1640
Commander of the Portuguese Japanese trading fleet. He fought in the East Indies from the end of the 1610s, and advanced to Macau in 1630. He arrived in Nagasaki as a special envoy to Japan in the same year, and negotiated with Nagasaki magistrate Takenaka Uneme Masashige to explain the sinking of a Japanese ship in Siam. He stayed in Japan for four years and had an audience with Tokugawa Iemitsu in 1634, before returning to Macau. He came to Japan again in 1635 and 1636, and on his third visit he was imprisoned in Dejima with all his crew members, and then returned to Macau with 287 Portuguese-Japanese wives and children who had been exiled. He returned to Japan via Goa in 1640, and died after returning to Japan.

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[没]1640
ポルトガルの日本貿易船隊司令官。 1610年代末から東インドで転戦，30年マカオに進出。同年遣日特使として長崎に来航し，長崎奉行竹中采女正義重とシャム日本船撃沈事件の弁明のため折衝，その後4年間日本に留って 34年徳川家光に謁したのち，マカオに帰った。 35，36年とさらに来日，3回目のとき船員一同とともに出島に監禁され，次いで追放されたポルトガル系日本人妻子ら 287人とともにマカオに帰った。 40年ゴアを経て帰国後，死亡。

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