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The ''Morrison'' was an American ship which arrived in [[1837]], seeking to repatriate a number of castaways, and was driven away by cannon fire, in accordance with the [[Edict to Repel Foreign Vessels]] issued in [[1825]].
The ship was operating out of [[Macao]] and carried a number of American missionaries, as well as three Japanese castaways. The three men, named Kyukichi, Iwakichi, and [[Yamamoto Otokichi]], had come ashore in the Pacific Northwest in [[1834]], where they were enslaved by a Native American group, then turned over to a captain of the Hudson Bay Company, who allowed them to make their way to England and to China before finally heading for Japan aboard the ''Morrison''.
The ship made port first at [[Naha]], in the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]], where the crew were granted provisions, and permitted to walk freely around the city before returning to their ship and heading for Japan proper. In 1837/6, they were fired upon at the port of [[Yamakawa]] in [[Satsuma han]], and at [[Uraga]], near [[Edo]]. Driven away, the ''Morrison'' never made port in Japan, and instead the three castaways settled in [[Shanghai]], [[Singapore]], and Macao, living out the rest of their lives there.
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==References==
*Robert Hellyer, ''Defining Engagement'', Harvard University Press (2009), 150.
*Matt Matsuda, ''Pacific Worlds'', University of Cambridge Press (2012), 233-237.