#namamugi_incident

Namamugi Incident

1862 political crisis in Tokugawa Japan due to the killing of a British merchant by the samurai

The Namamugi incident , 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.

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