Namamugi Jiken no Tenmatsu: Machibure Ikken no Utsushi [Copy of the Official Notices on the Details of the Namamugi Incident]

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Namamugi Jiken no Tenmatsu: Machibure Ikken no Utsushi ["Copy of the Official Notices on the Details of the Namamugi Incident"]

[Scribe unidentified].

[Japan, ca. Bunkyū period (1860s)?].

A manuscript compilation of records of the arrival of British warships in Yokohama in 1863 following the Namamugi Incident. On the 14th of September 1862, the British merchant Charles Lennox Richardson was killed by the entourage of Satsuma daimyō Shimazu Hisamitsu on a road in Namamugi for failing to dismount his horse and move aside to let the retinue pass. This event is now known as the Namamugi Incident, the Kanagawa Incident, or the Richardson Affair. Richardson's killing, legally justified in Japan under the kiri-sute gomen rule, outraged the British, who demanded reparations. The threat of a retaliatory attack on Edo by British warships was momentarily alleviated when the Shogunate agreed on May 9th to compensate the British £100,000 for Richardson's death. However, the continued refusal of the Satsuma Domain to acquiesce to several other demands from British officials in compensation resulted in the Anglo-Satsuma War of August 1863, in which the Satsuma Domain claimed victory but nevertheless made small reparations. This manuscript includes copies of four official letters or documents produced between February 23rd and April 5th of 1863 on the arrival of the British warships in Yokohama. 

One four-hole-bound (yotsumetoji) volume, complete, on double leaves, traditional East Asian binding style (fukurotoji). Non-original wrappers lightly creased. Stains and wear to wrappers and text leaves. [4] leaves. 25 x 17.4 cm.

Namamugi Jiken no Tenmatsu: Machibure Ikken no Utsushi [Copy of the Official Notices on the Details of the Namamugi Incident]
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