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*''Chinese'': [[張]]忠 ''(Zhāng Zhōng)''

Zhang Zhong was a Chinese sailor who came into the service of several Japanese [[Sengoku period]] ''daimyô''.

He drifted ashore at [[Hirado]] with two ships and a crew of a hundred men, and five horses, and was quickly apprehended by the [[Matsura clan]] lords of Hirado. He later entered the service of [[Ouchi Yoshitaka|Ôuchi Yoshitaka]] of [[Nagato province]], where he was granted a house and served the Ôuchi as court physician and military advisor. He simultaneously came to serve [[Mori Motonari|Môri Motonari]] in the same capacities. 

In [[1595]], Zhang's son Rokuzaemon was granted a [[stipend]] of 2,800 ''[[koku]]''. Rokuzaemon was later convicted of a crime and committed suicide, but his two sons, with 200 ''koku'' each, continued the family line.

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==References==
*Arano Yasunori. "The Formation of a Japanocentric World Order." ''International Journal of Asian Studies'' 2:2 (2005), 195-196.

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