What the records say
- When
- 1837
- Kind
- Military operation
- Coordinates
- 33.23° N, 135.16° E
- Description
- 1837 bombardment
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Morrison incident
1837 Japanese bombardment of a US ship
The Morrison incident of 1837 occurred when the American merchant ship Morrison, headed by Charles W. King, was driven away from "sakoku" (isolationist) Japan by cannon fire. This was carried out in accordance with the Japanese Edict to Repel Foreign Vessels of 1825. It has been alleged that King used the pretext of repatriating seven Japanese castaways, among them Yamamoto Otokichi, to try to open trade with Japan.
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- Wikidata: military operations, raids and air strikesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Charles W. King sets sail on the American merchant ship Morrison”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “En Japón, se produce el Incidente del Morrison, cuando el mercante americano Morrison es alejado de la bahía de Tokio a cañonazos por los aislacionistas”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “日本人漂流民を乗せた米商船に対し、江戸幕府が異国船打払令に基づき無差別砲撃（モリソン号事件）。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page