Sueyoshi Magozaemon Yoshiyasu

Sueyoshi Magozaemon was a great merchant and international trader who was very active in trading by ships with a shogunal charter during the early Edo period.

With his father Sueyoshi established an office for minting silver coins in 1601 by government request. Because of other services to the government, he was also permitted to engage in foreign trade.

His sueyoshibune (Sueyoshi ships) sailed annully to Luzon in the Philippines and Tonkin in Vietnam, until 1635 when Japanese ships were strictly forbidden to leave for foreign countries.