Not to be confused with Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1874), which is also known as the Mudan Incident (Mudanshe Shijian) in Chinese.
Mudan Incident
Victims Tomb at Gokokuji Temple, Naha City. Okinawa Prefecture
Location
Taiwan Prefecture, Fujian Province, Qing China
Date
December 1871
Attack type
massacre
Deaths
54[1]
Victim
54 Ryukyuan sailors
Perpetrators
Paiwan Formosans
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19th century conflicts involving Formosa
Nerbudda incident (1842)
Rover incident (1867)
American expedition (1867)
Mudan incident (1871)
Japanese invasion (1874)
Pescadores Campaign (1885)
Keelung Campaign
Battle of Tamsui (1884)
Pescadores Campaign (1895)
Japanese invasion (1895)
The Mudan incident of 1871 (Chinese: 八瑤灣事件、Japanese: 宮古島島民遭難事件[2]、Japanese: 琉球漂流民殺害事件[3]) was the massacre of 54 Ryukyuan sailors in Qing-era Taiwan who wandered into the central part of Taiwan after their ship shipwrecked off of Taiwan's southeastern coast. Twelve survivors were rescued by local Han people and were later returned to Miyako Island in the Ryukyus.
Because the Ryukyu Kingdom was a tributary state of Qing China as well as within the Japanese sphere of influence, the massacre was used as a pretext for Japan to invade southern Taiwan in 1874 to avenge "Japanese nationals" and subsequently annex the Ryukyu Kingdom in 1879.
^ 臺灣歷史地圖 增訂版. [Taiwan Historical Maps, Expanded and Revised Edition]. Taipei: National Museum of Taiwan History. February 2018. p. 80. ISBN 978-986-05-5274-4. 1871年，一艘琉球國宮古島的船隻漂流到八瑤灣，登陸幾天後，54名船員因故被高士佛社的原住民殺害。
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