Teradaya incident

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The Teradaya incident ( Japanese 寺 田 屋 事件 , Teradaya-jiken ) refers to two different events in Japanese history, more precisely in the Bakumatsu period, which both happened in the same hostel in Fushimi south of Kyoto , the Teradaya .

1862

In the incident of 1862, the regent of Satsuma, Shimazu Hisamitsu, prevented an attack on officials of the imperial court and the shogunate, the samurai who were subordinate to him.

On May 29, 1862 ( Bunkyū 2/4/23 according to the old Japanese calendar ) Shimazu Hisamitsu was in Kyoto with about 1000 samurai to get support for his reform plans in the shogunate at the imperial court. At that time Hisamitsu was not yet interested in the overthrow of the shogunate ( Tōbaku ), but in the union of the forces of the shogunate and the imperial court ( Kōbu gattai ).

However, some more radical Sonnō-jōi followers from among his samurai, led by Arima Shinshichi , were dissatisfied with this. Together with samurai from other Han , such as Maki Yasuomi and Tanaka Kawachinosuke , they gathered at the Ryokan Teradaya in Fushimi and planned an attack on the Kampaku (regent at the imperial court) Kujō Hisatada and the Kyōto Shoshidai (governor of Kyoto) Sakai Tadaaki .

Hisamitsu found out about these plans and sent Ōkubo Toshimichi to dissuade the conspirators from their plans, but to no avail. So instead he sent subordinates who were also convinced of Sonnō jōi to persuade the agitators to return to the Satsuma residence in Kyoto. For this assignment, Hisamitsu chose nine of his samurai, all of whom were excellent swordsmen, including Ōyama Tsunayoshi , Narahara Shigeru , Michijima Gorobē, and Suzuki Yūemon .

Arima refused to return to the residence with Ōyama, an argument ensued and swords were drawn. One of the samurai sent was killed (Michijima Gorobē), six of the conspirators died (Arima himself, Shibayama Aijirō , Hashiguchi Sōsuke , Nishida Naogorō , Deshimaru Ryūsuke and Hashiguchi Denzō ), and two others were seriously injured.

There were other conspirators present on the second floor, but Ōyama and the others were able to convince them to give up by lowering their swords and persuading them. The two wounded were forced to seppuku , and the ronin of other Han who had joined the conspirators were handed over to them. Tanaka Kawachinosuke and others who could not be handed over to the Han were put on a ship to Satsuma, then killed on board and their bodies thrown into the sea.

The dispatched samurai are reported to have had an unhappy end later in their lives, and the injured Shibayama Aijirō is said to have gone mad. Of the surviving conspirators, however, many made careers in the Meiji government.

By suppressing the uprising, Hisamitsu was able to turn out to be the protector of the court in Kyoto, and win the trust of the court officials. He was able to travel on to Edo as the protector of an imperial dispatch and an imperial ambassador . The measures implemented there to strengthen the Kōbu gattai are also known as Bunkyū reforms .


Sources and Notes

  1. ↑ At that time, Daimyo was his underage son, Shimazu Tadayoshi

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