Richard Cocks

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Richard Cocks was the head of the British East India Company trading post in Hirado, Japan, between 1613 to 1623, from its creation, and lasting to its closure, due to bankruptcy.

During his time in Japan, he wrote very detailed diaries, relating the history of the factory, the situation of Japan at the time, and the activities of English merchants in Japan, among whom was also the English pilot and samurai, retainer to Tokugawa Ieyasu, William Adams.