The Siebold Incident

In the late Edo period, the German doctor Siebold was deported from Japan. In September 1828 (Bunsei 11), when Siebold, a medical officer at the Dutch trading post, was returning home after completing his term of office, his ship was wrecked in a storm and his cargo was searched. The incident occurred when it was discovered that the luggage he was bringing back to the Netherlands contained many prohibited items, including a map of Japan created by Ino Tadataka. The investigation was protracted, taking place in Edo and Nagasaki, and Siebold was detained in Dejima for about a year. On September 25, 1829 (October 22, solar calendar), he was sentenced to "Nihon Okamae" (exile), and was deported from Japan in December of the same year. The Japanese who were implicated in this incident in Edo included Takahashi Sakuzaemon Kageyasu, the Magistrate of Books and Astronomy (imprisoned, died of illness during interrogation), inner circle physician Habu Genseki (whose stipend and house were confiscated), and Nagasakiya Gen'emon. In Nagasaki, the number of people implicated ranged from his disciples Ninomiya Keisaku, Koryosai, and Dejima painter Kawahara Toyosuke (Kawahara Keiga), to the interpreters Baba Tamehachiro, Yoshio Chujiro, Inabe Ichigoro, Hori Gizaemon, Suenaga Jinzaemon, Iwase Yaemon, and Yashiro Iwase, totaling over 50 people, ranging from servants.

[Kazuo Katagiri]

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江戸後期、ドイツ人医師シーボルトの国外追放事件。1828年（文政11）9月、オランダ商館付医官シーボルトが任期を終えて帰国しようとした際に、たまたま起こった暴風雨のために乗船が難破し、積み荷が調べられた。そのオランダへ持ち帰る荷物のうちに、伊能忠敬(いのうただたか)作成の日本地図など多くの禁制品のあることが発覚して、事件が起こった。取調べは江戸と長崎で行われて長引き、シーボルトはおよそ1年間出島(でじま)に拘禁され、29年9月25日（陽暦10月22日）「日本御構(おかまえ)」（追放）の判決を受け、同年12月日本より追放された。この事件に連座した日本人は、江戸では書物奉行(ぶぎょう)兼天文方高橋作左衛門景保(かげやす)（入牢(にゅうろう)、吟味中病死）、奥医師土生玄碩(はぶげんせき)（家禄(かろく)・屋敷没収）、長崎屋源右衛門など。長崎では門人の二宮敬作、高良斎(こうりょうさい)、出島絵師川原登与助(とよすけ)（川原慶賀(けいが)）はじめ、通詞(つうじ)の馬場為八郎、吉雄(よしお)忠次郎、稲部市五郎、堀儀左衛門、末永甚左衛門、岩瀬弥右衛門(やえもん)、同弥七郎から召使いに至るまで五十数人の多数に上った。

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