Chaya Shirojiro Kiyotada

Chaya Shirojiro Kiyotada was a member of the prominent mercantile Chaya family. Following the death of his father Chaya Shirôjirô Kiyonobu in 1596 Kiyotada took over the Chaya family business, and, having already served for a time as squire to Tokugawa Ieyasu, succeeded his father in his commercial relationship with the Tokugawa lord.

The family worked to monopolize the trade in raw silk, and served as official suppliers of a variety of goods to the shogunate. Kiyotada died young, in 1603, at the age of nineteen, and the family business was then taken over by his brother Chaya Shirôjirô Kiyotsugu.