Yanagawa Affair
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The Yanagawa Affair was a scandal in which Tsushima han karô Yanagawa Shigeoki and others were found to have been forging diplomatic documents.
In a grand audience held at Edo castle on 1635/3/11, Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu made a determination to declare the Sô clan not guilty, and to allow them to retain their special position in facilitating relations with Korea. Yanagawa was exiled to Tsugaru. A system was established in which monks from the Kyoto Gozan ("Five Mountains") Zen temples would be accredited by the shogunate as experts at diplomacy and dispatched to the Iteian temple on Tsushima to oversee the creation of diplomatic documents and other matters.
References
- Gallery labels, Tsushima Museum.[1]