Magoshichiro Harada

Japanese: 原田孫七郎 - はらだ・まごしちろう

Years of birth: unknown. A trader from the early modern period. A member of the family of Harada Kiemon and a subordinate. He was engaged in trade with the Philippines, lived in Manila, and was fluent in Spanish. In 1591, he carried a letter from Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the regent, urging the Philippines to pay tribute. Magoshichiro was a man of low social status, but Hideyoshi threatened to send a warship if Magoshichiro did not comply with his request. Dasmariñas, governor of the Philippines, did not want to cause trouble, even though Magoshichiro was merely a merchant, so he treated him with courtesy and had him deliver a reply to Hideyoshi in 1592. He also sent Dominican priest Juan Cobo and others to Japan as return envoys. No other details about Magoshichiro are known. <References> Murakami Naojiro (ed.), "Ikoku tsūkanshō" (Collection of Letters from Foreign Countries), Murakami Naojiro, "Nihon to Filipinos" (Japan and the Philippines)

(Yasunao Nakata)

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

Japanese:

生年：生没年不詳
近世初頭の貿易家。原田喜右衛門の一族で部下。フィリピン貿易に従事し,マニラに居住して,スペイン語に通じていた。天正19(1591)年関白豊臣秀吉からフィリピン諸島に入貢を促す書状を携行した人物。孫七郎は身分の賤しい者ではあったが,秀吉の申し入れに従わなければ,軍船を派遣することをにおわせ,フィリピン長官ダスマリニャスは,孫七郎が一介の商人にすぎなかったが事を構えたくないと思い,これを丁重に取り扱い,文禄1(1592)年に返書を秀吉宛に持たせた。かつドミニコ会士フアン・コボらを答礼使として日本に派遣した。ほかに孫七郎についての詳細は伝わらない。<参考文献>村上直次郎編『異国往復書翰集』,村上直次郎『日本と比律賓』

(中田易直)

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