大黒屋光太夫
1. Daikokuya Kōdayū(1751 - May 28, 1828) was a Japanese castaway who spent eleven years in Russia. His ship landed at Amchitka, Aleutian Islands. They managed to escape to the Russian mainland and had Catherine the Great allow them to go back to Japan by Kirill Laxman's effort with Alexander Bezborodko and Alexander Vorontsov. Two made it back to Japan alive, one died when they stayed in Yezo, two stayed in Irkutsk as they became Christians, 11 died.
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