1862 political crisis in Tokugawa Japan due to the killing of a British merchant by the samurai
The Namamugi Incident depicted in a 19th-century Japanese woodcut print with Charles Lennox Richardson at the centre of the scene.
The Namamugi incident (生麦事件, Namamugi-jiken), also known as the Kanagawa incident and Richardson affair, was a political crisis that occurred in the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan during the Bakumatsu on 14 September 1862. Charles Lennox Richardson, a British merchant, was killed by the armed retinue of Shimazu Hisamitsu, the regent of the Satsuma Domain, on a road in Namamugi near Kawasaki.
Richardson's killing sparked outrage among Europeans for violating their extraterritoriality in Japan, while the Japanese argued Richardson had disrespected Shimazu and was justifiably killed under the Kiri-sute gomen rule. British demands for compensation and failure by the Satsuma to respond resulted in the Bombardment of Kagoshima (or Anglo-Satsuma War) in August 1863.
The Namamugiincident (生麦事件, Namamugi-jiken), also known as the Kanagawa incident and Richardson affair, was a political crisis that occurred in the Tokugawa...
compensation and legal justice from daimyo Shimazu Tadayoshi for the 1862 NamamugiIncident, when a Royal Navy fleet commanded by Sir Augustus Leopold Kuper was...
British merchant based in Shanghai who was killed in Japan during the NamamugiIncident. His middle name is spelled Lenox in the census and family documents...
the British during the bombardment of Kagoshima in 1863 after the NamamugiIncident. The Satsuma Domain formed the Satchō Alliance with the rival Chōshū...
argument, a chase, and one was killed, in what came to be known as the NamamugiIncident. Hisamitsu remained at the core of the kōbu-gattai movement in Kyoto...
United Kingdom) A British merchant who was murdered by samurai in the NamamugiIncident which later led to the Bombardment of Kagoshima. Ernest Mason Satow...
the Bombardment of Kagoshima took place, in retaliation for the Namamugiincident and the murder of the English trader Richardson. The Royal Navy bombarded...
Sakuradamon incident. 11 November: Sachinomiya is formally proclaimed Crown Prince and given the personal name Mutsuhito. 1862: NamamugiIncident. 1864–65:...
demanded from Satsuma for the murder of Charles Lennox Richardson – the NamamugiIncident. When these were not forthcoming, a squadron of Royal Navy vessels...
the British Government as reparation to the British victims of the NamamugiIncident. During the Bombardment of Kagoshima the captain of Euryalus, John...
young samurai, outside the settlement inevitably caused problems; the NamamugiIncident, one of the events that preceded the downfall of the shogunate, took...
interpreter in the British Japan Consular Service, at age 19, the NamamugiIncident (Namamugi Jiken), in which a British merchant was killed on the Tōkaidō...
many others the grave of Charles Lennox Richardson, murdered in the NamamugiIncident in September 1862, John Wilson, and that of Charles Wirgman, Ludovicus...
Diplomatic (contractual or in treatise) faux-pas The Robinson Affair (NamamugiIncident) According to Brandt 1901, "six or seven" volleys. Mitford (1915)...
Kagoshima, Satsuma Domain, in Kyūshū. In 1862, Kuroda was involved in the Namamugiincident, in which Satsuma retainers killed a British national who refused...
against the shogunate itself and against foreigners in Japan. The NamamugiIncident during 1862 led to the murder of an Englishman, Charles Lennox Richardson...
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