Namamugi Incident

Book cover: Publisher approved, reprinted without permission

At that time, in August 1862 (1862), it happened in Musashi Kokusei Mugi Village (now Ikumugi, Tsurumi-ku). Four British men heading to Kawasakidaishi by horse were cut off by Satsuma clansman and one of them died.

The following year, the British fleet headed to Satsuma in search of the criminal handover and compensation, and the Satsu British War broke out. At that time, the Choshu clan was also fighting against the European Union Fleet.

After the two battles, the two clans of Satsuma and Choshu, who had been rejected, felt the necessity of modernizing arms, and conversely approached foreign countries such as U.K. and developed into the Meiji Restoration.

The killing of an Englishman in a fishing village on the Tokaido greatly changed the history of Japan. It was a major incident later called the "raw wheat incident" that had a major impact on the diplomatic and modern Japan's career in the late Tokugawa shogunate era.

Here are some books on the raw wheat case, which celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2012.

Raw wheat incident (outside site)

Akira Yoshimura/author Shinchosha 1998
(For paperback version, top (outside site) and bottom (outside site) Volume 2002)

The author, who was convinced that this incident had extremely important significance in the collapse of the Shogunate and the establishment of the Meiji Restoration, conducted a thorough investigation in Kagoshima and Kanagawa prefectures for over two years, and wrote a magnificent historical novel. Was. The weather at the time of the incident is also written based on facts in "Sekiguchi Diary".

Richardson, a man killed by late Tokugawa shogunate - a raw wheat case (outside site)

Shinichi Miyazawa / Author Shinchosha 1997

Following the footsteps of Richardson, a young British merchant who encountered a tragedy in a foreign land, he traveled to England many times and deciphered family register materials, diaries, letters and unpublished diplomatic documents.
The culmination of research that was still collected and thoroughly investigated from the previous work "Satsuma and England encountered barley Case (Seeed from British materials) (outside site)".

Table of Contents of this book

About raw wheat case (outside site)

Tsurumi History Association / edition 1992

It was published in 1992, the 130th anniversary of the Barley incident.
The monument of the historic site of the incident and the subsequent memorial festival are also described. There is a chronology at the end of the book.

Document Raw Wheat Case (External Site)

Takeo Asami / Written 2011

This is a reproduction of the real wheat case by Takeo Asami, director of the private museum and the Raw Wheat Case Reference Museum, and a commentary on the history of the Satsuei War by former professor of Defense University Yoichi Hirama. At the end of the book, there is the Old Tokaido Namamugi History Walk, which is convenient for visiting the edges.

Regarding the Raw Wheat Case Reference Museum, the history of its opening is described in "Yokohama Study Seminar 35 (outside site)" as "Make a private" Museum "- Raw Wheat Case Reference Museum "".

You can see "Old Tokaido Namamugi History Walk (Image: 101KB)" at the end of "Document Raw Barley Case".

There are also books on the history of Tsurumi, such as Tsurumi Ward History and Tsurumi's Hundred Years.

In addition, there is a commentary on the Tsurumi Ward's charm point on the website of the Tsurumi Ward Office.

Even now, the historic site of the incident still stands near Kirin Beer Village. Why don't you survive the past in a completely different landscape from that time?