Nagoya Incident

A plan for an uprising by Liberal Party members in the Nagoya area. It is closely related to the uprisings by Liberal Party members in Gunma, Kabasan, Chichibu, Iida, and other incidents in 1884 (Meiji 17). As early as 1883, the Liberal Party in Nagoya grew in influence thanks to the efforts of Naito Roichi, Sobue Michio, Oshima Ukichi, and Oshima Nagisa, among whom were radicals such as Oshima Nagisa, Yamauchi Tokusaburo, Kuno Kotaro, and Tomita Kanbei, who planned to establish a public road association with the aim of improving national affairs, and committed several robberies in December 1883 to raise funds for the organization. The Public Road Association was founded in June 1884, and this prompted Oshima and others to decide that the only way to quickly establish the National Diet was to raise an army and overthrow the tyrannical government, and they committed a series of robberies to obtain funds for this. On August 12, 1884, on their way back from an attempted robbery, they encountered police officers at Hirata Bridge and killed two of them. This is why the Nagoya incident is called the Hirata Bridge Incident. The plan to raise an army was discovered on December 14, 1884, when Tomita and six others attacked the headman's office of Nagakusa Village, Chita County, injuring three officials and one police officer, and Genbei Minagawa, who was arrested during the escape, confessed. They were indicted on charges of robbery and murder, and three of them - Oshima, Tomita, and Suzuki Matsugoro - were sentenced to death, seven - Minagawa, Tanemura Kamakichi, Sato Kinjiro, Aonuma Denjiro, Okumiya Kenshi, Nakajo Kansuke, and Suzuki Keitaro - were sentenced to life imprisonment, and 16 others, including Yamauchi, were sentenced to fixed-term prison terms or heavy prison sentences.

[Yasushi Goto]

"Tezuka Yutaka, 'Study on the Civil Rights Trial, Volume 2' (1982, Keio University Press)"

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

名古屋地方の自由党員の蜂起(ほうき)計画。1884年（明治17）の群馬、加波山(かばさん)、秩父(ちちぶ)、飯田(いいだ)諸事件などの自由党員の蜂起と密接な関連をもつ。1883年に入るや、名古屋の自由党は内藤魯一(ろいち)、祖父江道雄(そふえみちお)、大島宇吉(うきち)、大島渚(なぎさ)らの活躍で党勢が伸び、そのなかの過激派大島渚、山内徳三郎(とくさぶろう)、久野幸太郎(くのこうたろう)、富田勘兵衛(とみたかんべえ)らは国事改良を目ざして公道協会の設立を計画し、その資金獲得のため83年12月に数回強盗を行った。公道協会は84年6月に設立され、これを契機に大島らは、国会開設を早期にかちとるためには挙兵して専制政府を打倒する以外にないとし、その資金獲得のため強盗を繰り返した。84年8月12日には強盗未遂の帰途、平田橋で警官と遭遇し、2名の警官を殺害した。名古屋事件が平田橋事件とよばれるのはそのためである。挙兵計画が発覚したのは、84年12月14日、富田ほか6名が知多郡長草村戸長役場を襲い吏員3名と警官1名を負傷させ、逃亡の途中に逮捕された皆川源兵衛(げんべえ)の自供からである。彼らは強盗殺人罪で起訴され、大島、富田、鈴木松五郎(まつごろう)の3名が死刑、皆川、種村鎌吉(たねむらかまきち)、佐藤金次郎(きんじろう)、青沼伝次郎(でんじろう)、奥宮健之(おくのみやけんし)、中条勘助(なかじょうかんすけ)、鈴木桂太郎(けいたろう)の7名が無期徒刑、山内ら16名が有期徒役(とえき)と重懲役などに処せられた。

［後藤　靖］

『手塚豊著『自由民権裁判の研究　中巻』（1982・慶応通信）』

出典　小学館　日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)について　情報 | 凡例