What's so special about Sakai merchants?

[Kak]

Every time a merchant of Sakai is visiting my territory, I get notified. However, on looking at the merchant screen, there doesn't seem to be anything special about him. His prices are never particularly great and he doesn't ever sell any treasures, so what's so good about him?

[Revan Tair]

Higher amounts of buyable ressources and Items.
There are actually 3 types of traders. Sakai merchant, normal merchant and european merchant. normal and euro merchant afaik will sell treasures. Not the sakai one, he only got the higher amounts of horses and muskets.

[Dancing Dragon Games]

They all sell treasures

[Daimyō]

They all sell treasures. Sakai merchants will:
- Buy and Sell more food than other merchants.
- Sell more (Chinese) items than normal merchants.
- Sell more horses than the other merchants.
- Sell more muskets than the normal merchant, but less than the European one.
- Sakai merchants are available from 1534+, about 20-25 years before European merchants first show up, and will appear indescriminately (you don't have to run into clans that know of Christianity and Muskets first).

[tommy07robs]

What about that regular merchant with a name. I make so much money from that guy

[Daimyō]

Originally posted by tommy07robs:

What about that regular merchant with a name. I make so much money from that guy

That's the Sakai merchant.