Shimazu Hisamitsu

Shimazu Hisamitsu was the father of Shimazu Tadayoshi (Mochihisa), the lord of Satsuma Domain in the late Edo period. He was born in 1817 and died in 1887.

The Namamugi Incident

On 21 August 1862 (Bunkyū 2), as the procession of Hisamitsu, father of the Satsuma daimyo, passed through the village of Namamugi, four foreigners rode into the line. The British merchant Richardson was cut down by the samurai escorting the procession. The incident led to a compensation dispute and then to the Anglo-Satsuma War.