San Felipe Incident

Japanese: サン･フェリペ号事件 - サンフェリペごうじけん

The Spanish ship San Felipe, sailing between Mexico and the Philippines, left Manila in July 1596, but was washed ashore in Urado, Tosa, on October 19 (August 28, 1596) due to a storm. The news was immediately conveyed to Toyotomi Hideyoshi by the feudal lord Chosokabe Motochika, and the ship's captain, Landecho, also sent a messenger to Hideyoshi to ask for protection. Hideyoshi dispatched the magistrate Masuda Nagamori to confiscate the cargo, but the captain of the ship protested against this and made boastful statements about the Spanish conquest of Japan, and the Portuguese also made slanderous allegations about the relationship between the Spanish conquest of Japan and the monks who had traveled from Manila in relation to the shipwreck of the San Felipe. As a result, Franciscan monks who were openly preaching in the Kinai region at the time were arrested, and the 26 martyrs were martyred in February of the following year.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

メキシコ･フィリピン間航行のスペイン船サン･フェリペ号は，1596年7月マニラを出港し暴風雨のため10月19日(慶長1年8月28日)土佐浦戸に漂着した。この報は早速領主長宗我部元親より豊臣秀吉に伝えられ，船長ランデーチョも秀吉に使者を遣わし保護を求めた。秀吉は奉行増田長盛を派遣して積荷を没収させたが，この処置に航海長が抗議してスペインの征服事業につき大言壮語し，あるいはポルトガル人がサン･フェリペ号漂着に関しスペイン人の日本征服とマニラからの渡航修道士との関係につき讒言（ざんげん）したため，当時畿内で公然と布教していたフランシスコ会修道士らが捕らわれ，翌年2月の二十六聖人の殉教となったと考えられている。

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