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{{Short description|1825 Tokugawa Shogunate law}}
The {{Nihongo|'''Edict to Repel Foreign Vessels'''|異国船打払令|Ikokusen Uchiharairei}} was a law promulgated by the [[Tokugawa Shogunate]] in 1825 to the effect that all foreign vessels should be driven away from Japanese waters.<ref name="Vaporis2012"/>

An example of the law being put into practice was the [[Morrison Incident|''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.<ref name="Shavit1990"/>

The law was repealed in 1842.

== See also ==
* [[Sakoku]]

== References ==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="Vaporis2012">{{Citation
 | last1     = Vaporis
 | first1    = Constantine
 | title     = Voices of Early Modern Japan: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life During the Age of the Shoguns
 | publisher = ABC-CLIO
 | pages     = 115–117
 | year      = 2012
 | isbn      = 978-0313392009
 | url       = https://books.google.com/books?id=fUXSYjouBRkC&pg=PA115
 | postscript= .
}}</ref>

<ref name="Shavit1990">{{Citation
 | last1     = Shavit
 | first1    = David
 | title     = The United States in Asia: A Historical Dictionary
 | publisher = Greenwood Publishing Group
 | page      = 354
 | year      = 1990
 | isbn      = 031326788X
 | url       = https://books.google.com/books?id=IWdZTaJdc6UC&pg=PA354
 | postscript= .
}}</ref>
}}

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[[Category:Foreign relations of the Tokugawa shogunate]]
[[Category:1825 in Japan]]
[[Category:Edicts|Repel Foreign Vessels]]
[[Category:Isolationism]]

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