1st: Incidents of foreign killings and raw wheat during the turbulent period at the end of the Tokugawa period (Part 1)

<The photo shows Sozo Kurokawa>

On August 21, 1862, 1862, a monument to the Raw Barley Incident, which tells the story of a British killing in a fishing village, Ikumugi Village on the former Tokaido, is located at a corner of the Kirin Brewery Yokohama Factory, an exchange point on the former Tokaido, with the former Tokaido Road.
The monument contains a song that mourns the situation at the time of the incident and the death of U.K. merchant Richardson who died unworked here. This monument was built in 1885 (Meiji 16) by Sozo Kurokawa, the deputy head of the fourth ward of the third ward of the Tachibana-gun ward system.

According to the "New Edition Musashi Fudoki" compiled in the Edo period, "It is a land along the sea with Tokaido, between Kanagawa and Kawasaki, one and a half to Kanagawa and one and a half to Kawasaki. It is located at a distance of Rokuri from Edo Nihonbashi. It belongs to Koyasu-go, and in the past book of Anyoji, it used to be called Kishimura (also written as Kishimura). Also, when Tokugawa entered Edo, the name of the village came to be Namamugi because he cut Namamugi and laid itNamamugi on the road." A lot of clams and red mussels were also caught. In Koyasu, shellfish tsukudani was a specialty. The fishermen in Namamugi were peeling shells and laying shells on the road. It is also said that the shellfish "raw" changed from "raw" to "namagi". Because white shells were laid, the road around here was also called the shell path.……。
Because the generals pass through, the important wheat that supports their lives, Namamugi was full of simple humanity enough to cut the wheat before fruit and spread it on the road. It was 1862, 140 years ago, when Namamugi, a fishing village with a row of pine trees with sea breeze and white shells continued. The unfortunate incident of the killing of a British by the Satsuma clan at around 2:00 pm on August 21, 1862 caused the name of Ikumugi Village to be written on a page of history.

The trace of the birth wheat incident

"Tsurumi History Society" Mie Saito