Toyoda Mitsugi

Japanese: 豊田貢 - とよた・みつぎ

Year of death: 12/5/1829 (12/30/1829)
Year of birth: 1774
She was a central figure in the Osaka Christian Incident, an incident in which Christians were cracked down on in the Kyoto and Osaka region during the late Edo period. Born in Etchu Province (Toyama Prefecture), she worked as a maid and prostitute before marrying the onmyoji Saito Iori in Kyoto. However, she was abandoned by her husband and stayed at the home of an acquaintance, where she learned about Mizuno Gunki, who taught her the secret teachings of Tentei Nyorai, and she is said to have imparted these teachings to a female disciple in a similar situation. On the surface, they made a living by selling Inari shrines, but in 1827, one of their female disciples was involved in a fraud case, and Mitsugu and his friends came to light, leading to their arrest. During a council, doubts were raised as to whether they were Christians, but for political reasons, the shogunate crucified them as Christians. One of the deputies at the Osaka Higashimachi Magistrate's Office who investigated them was Oshio Heihachiro. Mitsugu was said to have been in high spirits until the time of his execution. The fact that he was a proud and irritable person can also be seen from the sentence in another case in 1824. <References> Koda Shigetomo, "Oshio Heihachiro"; Miyagi Kimiko, "Oshio Heihachiro"

(Tamaki Seki)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：文政12.12.5(1829.12.30)
生年：安永3(1774)
江戸後期,京坂地方で起きた切支丹摘発事件「大坂切支丹一件」の中心人物。越中国(富山県)に生まれ,下女,遊女奉公ののち京都で陰陽師斎藤伊織の妻となるが,夫に捨てられ,身を寄せた知人宅で知った水野軍記から天帝如来の教法秘儀の伝授を受け,彼女も似た境遇の女弟子に秘儀を授けたという。表向きは稲荷下げで生計を立てていたが,文政10(1827)年女弟子のひとりの詐欺事件から貢らの存在が浮かび逮捕される。評議の際切支丹であるかどうかの疑義も出されたが,政治的思惑から幕府は切支丹として磔刑に処した。取り調べに当たった大坂東町奉行所の掛かり与力のひとりが大塩平八郎であった。貢は処刑の際まで昂然としていたという。誇り高く癇癖の強い性格だったことが,文政7年の別の事件での判決内容からもうかがわれる。<参考文献>幸田成友『大塩平八郎』,宮城公子『大塩平八郎』

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