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Suminokura Ryōi (角倉 了以, 1554 – August 17, 1614) was a merchant and shipper of Edo period Kyoto.Along with the families of Chaya Shirōjirō and Gotō Shōzaburō, the Suminokura family, whose merchant enterprise Ryōi founded, represented one of the three chief merchant families in the city in this period.Ryōi was born into a branch family of physicians and moneylenders.