Madre de Deus incident
The Madre de Deus incident ended a dispute between André Pessoa, the Portuguese governor of Macau , and Japan in 1610 .
Working in East Asia
André Pessoa was the Portuguese governor in Macau in 1608 when a Japanese ship that Arima Harunobu (有 馬 晴 信; 1567-1612) had chartered in the port wintered. When clashes between the Japanese occupation and the local population became rampant, Pessoa cracked down on them and forced the Japanese to sign a paper pleading guilty. As soon as the ship was back in Japan, complaints were made to the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu , who lived secluded in his Sumpu castle .
In the following year Pessoa came to Nagasaki with the carrack "Madre de Dios" and had statements about his crackdown transmitted, which were also accepted by the Japanese side. But Harunobu and the commissioner of Nagasaki, Hasegawa Fujihiro (長谷川 藤 広; 1567–1617), persuaded Ieyasu to reverse his decision and destroy the Portuguese ship. They brought together 1200 soldiers and numerous boats, attacked the ship and tried to set it on fire. After three days, Pessoa gave up, had the powder magazine set on fire on January 7, 1610, and went down with the ship, not without taking a considerable number of Japanese with them to their death. Juan de Amorin, a Spanish Augustinian , was also killed.
literature
- Papinot, Edmond: Pessoa (Andrew) In: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Reprinted by Tuttle, 1972 edition of 1910 edition. ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .