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portrait of '' yamada nagamasa '' circa 1630 ja 1630 numazu , shizuoka , japan 200 山田 長政 1590 ok-ya senaphimuk -lrb- ออกญาเสนาภิมุข -rrb- yamadanagamasa.jpg yamada nagamasa
 yamada nagamasa
yamada nagamasa

from 1617 until his death in 1630 , yamada nagamasa was head of the japanese village referred to as `` ban yipun '' in the thai language .
this village was situated within the city of ayutthaya -lrb- the capital city of the ayutthaya kingdom -rrb- .
`` ban yipun '' was home to roughly 1,000 japanese citizens , and was headed by a japanese chief who was nominated by ayutthayan authorities .
its inhabitants were a combination of traders , christian converts who had fled their home country following the persecutions of toyotomi hideyoshi and tokugawa ieyasu , and rōnin -lrb- unemployed former samurai -rrb- who had been on the losing side at the battle of sekigahara -lrb- 1600 -rrb- or the siege of osaka -lrb- 1614 -- 15 -rrb- .
the christian community seems to have been in the hundreds , as described by padre antónio francisco cardim , who recounted having administered sacrament to around 400 japanese christians in 1627 in the city of ayutthaya .
