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- Japanese: 寧波の乱 (Ninpou no ran)
The Ningbo Incident was a clash between forces of the Ôuchi and Hosokawa clans, in the Chinese port of Ningbo in 1523, over dominance of maritime trade with China.
Ships from both clans arrived in the port, seeking to unload goods and engage in trade. The Hosokawa received some sort of preferential treatment from the Chinese authorities, and in response, the Ôuchi men pillaged the neighboring countryside.[1]
The incident marked a major turning point in Sino-Japanese relations. While China did not ban its people from going to Japan, and Japanese from coming to China, until 1557, the Ming Court did shut down its shibo si port offices in Ningbo and Fuzhou,[2] demanded of the Ashikaga shogunate that it turn over those responsible, and also demanded the return of the tallies the shogunate had been given to engage in formal trade relations with China. Since those receiving these demands and claiming to represent the shogunate were in fact agents of the Ôuchi clan, and not true shogunate representatives, nothing came of the Ming Court's efforts.[3]
References
- ↑ Sansom, George. A History of Japan: 1334-1615. Stanford University Press, 1961. p176.
- ↑ Schottenhammer, Angela. "The East Asian maritime world, 1400-1800: Its fabrics of power and dynamics of exchanges - China and her neighbors." in Schottenhammer (ed.) The East Asian maritime world, 1400-1800: Its fabrics of power and dynamics of exchanges. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007. p22.
- ↑ Hashimoto Yû. "The Information Strategy of Imposter Envoys from Northern Kyushu to Choson Korea in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries." in Angela Schottenhammer (ed.) The East Asian Mediterranean: Maritime Crossroads of Culture, Commerce and Human Migration. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2008. pp289-315.
