The was a law promulgated by the
Tokugawa Shogunate
The Tokugawa shogunate (, Japanese 徳川幕府 ''Tokugawa bakufu''), also known as the , was the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"''Tokugawa-jidai''"in ''Japan Encyclopedia ...
in 1825 to the effect that all foreign vessels should be driven away from Japanese waters.
An example of the law being put into practice was the
''Morrison'' Incident of 1837, in which an American merchant vessel attempting to use the return of Japanese castaways as leverage to initiate trading was fired upon.
The law was repealed in 1842.
See also
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Sakoku
was the Isolationism, isolationist Foreign policy of Japan, foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate under which, for a period of 265 years during the Edo period (from 1603 to 1868), relations and trade between Japan and other countri ...
References
Foreign relations of the Tokugawa shogunate
1825 in Japan
Repel Foreign Vessels
Isolationism
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