Ieyasu's closest non-Japanese advisor, conventionally regarded an enemy of the Spanish. Next to Vivero and the other castaways from the shipwrecked galleon, 23 Japanese merchants under the leadership of Kyoto merchant, Tanaka Shösuke, and Father Alonso Muñoz, as leyasu's designated envoy to the court in Madrid, boarded the ship in Uraga on 1 August 1610 and landed in Acapulco safely three months later.