Everything about The Sakai Incident totally explained
The
Sakai incident was the killing of 11 French sailors from the French
corvette Dupleix in the port of
Sakai near
Osaka,
Japan in 1868.
On
March 8, 1868, a
skiff sent to
Sakai was attacked by
samurai of the
Tosa clan; 11 sailors and
Midshipman Guillou were killed (a monument in
Kobe is now erected to their memory). At the time, the port of Sakai wasn't open to foreign ships, and the Tosa troops were in charge of policing the city.
The French captain
Dupetit Thouars protested so strongly that an indemnity of 150,000
dollar was agreed upon, the culprits were arrested, and 20 of them were sentenced to death by
seppuku. However, the style of execution was so shocking to the French that, after 11 were carried out, the captain requested a pardon, sparing nine of the samurai.
This allowed the French and Japanese parties to reconcile, and is now known as the "Sakai incident" or
Sakai Jiken (堺事件).
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