Oyura Sodo - Oyura Sodo

Japanese: お由羅騒動 - おゆらそうどう

A family dispute in the Kagoshima Domain that occurred at the end of the Edo period. Also known as the Kaei Hoto Incident or the Takasaki Collapse. The Kagoshima Domain, which promoted chamberlain Chosho Hirosato to a position of authority and restored the domain's finances, had managed to stockpile 500,000 ryo by 1844. Around this time, a faction supported Shimazu Nariakira as the successor to the lord of the domain, Shimazu Narioki, and the Chosho Hirosato faction feared that the domain's finances would deteriorate again if Nariakira became lord of the domain, were in conflict. The Chosho faction sought to support Nariakira's half-brother Shimazu Hisamitsu (son of the concubine Oyura) and allied with Oyura. The faction supporting Nariakira forced Chosho Hirosato to commit suicide after he was found guilty of smuggling, but the real power in the domain remained in the hands of the Chosho faction. The supporters of Nariakira further plotted to assassinate Hisamitsu and Oyura, which was discovered by the feudal lord Narioki, and the mastermind, Takasaki Goroemon Atsutaka, and others were forced to commit seppuku, while over 40 others were sentenced to death or exiled. As a result of this incident in 1849-1850, Narioki retired, and with the help of the Shogunate elder statesman Abe Masahiro and others, Shimazu Nariakira became the feudal lord the following year in 1851.

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Japanese:

幕末に起きた鹿児島藩の御家騒動。嘉永朋党(かえいほうとう)事件・高崎崩れとも。側用人調所広郷を抜擢して藩財政を立て直した鹿児島藩は，1844年には50万両を備蓄するまでに至った。この頃藩主島津斉興の後継に世子島津斉彬を擁立する一派と，斉彬が藩主となれば再び藩財政は悪化すると危惧する調所広郷一派が対立。調所派は斉彬の異母弟島津久光（側室お由羅の子）の擁立を図り，お由羅と結んだ。斉彬擁立派は調所広郷を密貿易露顕一件で自殺させたが，藩実権は依然として調所派が握っていた。斉彬擁立派はさらに久光とお由羅の暗殺を画策，これが藩主斉興に露顕，首謀者の高崎五郎右衛門温恭らは切腹，ほか四十数名も死罪・遠島などに処せられた。この嘉永２年−３年（1849年−1850年）の事件で，斉興は隠居，幕府老中阿部正弘らの画策で翌嘉永４年（1851年）島津斉彬が藩主となった。

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