Untold History : The Lost Samurai Contingent of Malacca

unekspekted_XII

Minggu lepas... in one of the infamous Antique shop di Melake yang aku pegi, ade displayed a Katana, said to be 500 years old.  Sale for RM 46k.... quite remarkable features, blade still masih tajam.. yang lain2 sudah reput.
500 years.. whilst, Jepun datang Malaya cume baru 60 tahun lepas.. Jepun mane plak yang datang 500 tahun lepas?????????

1st CLUE

Pada 1547, St Francis Xavier... Bersama Captain Jorge Alvarez menghadiri majlis perkahwinan di Gereja St Paul di Kota Melaka.

Bersama2 hadir pada majlis itu adalah seorang "Samurai" yang lari bernama "Anjiro" dan 2 sahabatnya..

Yes... lihat baik2..

si "Anjiro" ni.. jumpa Xavier di Malacca.. maknanya... geng2 Samurai ni.. fugitive yang melarikan diri dan duduk di Malacca.. dari bile.. x tau..



2nd CLUE




91 tahun lepas Portuguese merampas melaka.. dorang built a community.. 1/3 hanya orang portuguese.


To assumed yang "portuguese" mengawal kota melaka.. tak jugak.. cume post penting.  Siape yg mengawal "Kota Melaka"?

Mercenaries terdiri orang2 Jawa, Bugis, Minang etc.. dan 1 kontingen "Samurai" Jepun.

THE LOST SAMURAI CONTINGENT

Direkodkan.. 10 buah kapal berlayar ke Melaka semasa pemerintahan Okinawa Kingdom pada penghujung 1560.

Their intercontinental commerce disappeared arouind 1570 sebab peningkatan persaingan dari orang China, Portuguese dan Spanish.  

TETAPI.....

Pada 14 August 1606, Andre Furtado de Mendoza.. commander Portuguese di Malacca berjaya menangkis serangan darat pertama yang dilancarkan oleh Orang Belanda.. dengan bantuan Samurai2 Jepun



Belanda, yang mase tu mendapat bantuan Johor dan Jambi.. repulsed.. serangan darat dorang dapat dipatahkan dengan bantuan Samurai2 Jepun di Malacca.   


LIHAT BETUL2... :

1500's = 10 Japanese ships sailed to Malacca
1547 = Samurai fugitive.. Anjiro met Francis Xavier di Malacca.. maknenye.. dah ade community 'samurai' di Malacca in 1500's
1570 = No more commerce to Malacca and Japan
1606 = "a Contingent" of Japanese Samurai helped Portuguese defending Malacca from Dutch

Jarak peristiwa itu = 100 years

Who is really 'defending' Malacca????.......... those 10 ships of original Samurais.. or.. their descendants???

Hahahahaaaaahaaaaa

bibir

nampak sangat askar melaka tiada daya dan upaya sehinggalah meminta bantuan askar dari kerajaan lain

TokMudim

Portugis kan menjajah Melaka, jadi rakyat tempatan memang la benci pada Portugis, kecuali yang ada kepentingan-kepentingan peribadi. Siapa sanggup menjadi balaci kepada orang luar yang menyerang negeri mereka.

Untuk mengimport bala tentera dari Portugis mahupun dari Goa mungkin mengambil masa, dari sudut logistik mungkin kurang efisien. Jadi langkah mudah dan paling efisien adalah dengan menggaji mercenaries daripada kawasan terdekat.

Disebabkan itu, Portugis menggunakan khidmat mercenaries luar untuk menjadi tulang belakang pertahanan Melaka pada ketika itu. Macam dari Jawa, Minang, dan tak mustahil juga dari Jepun yang terdiri daripada para Samurai.

manuskrip_lama

sebelum melaka dikalahkan oleh portugis, hubungan melaka dengan kerajaan lain telah wujud. antaranya;
1. kerajaan demak, jawa.
2. kerajaan gowa, sulawesi selatan.
3. kerajaan ryoka (kot) iaitu jepun.
4. dll. (hehe...)

macam sumatra, tu memang di bawah pengaruh kerajaan melaka.

dgn hubungan2 ini, mesti org dr jawa, bugis, minang, jepun dll berkhidmat dengan melaka.

tp portugis berjaya mengalahkan melaka sekejap je sbb portugis dah merancang strategi bertahun2 utk kalahkan kerajaan melaka yg kuat pd ketika itu. kan mula2 dorg ni dtg utk berdagang...then lama2, dorg rampas melaka tu. ini salah satu dr strategi dorg.

kalu saya salah, arap maaf. hehe..

HangPC2

Portugis dan Belanda Banyak pakai askar upahan @ Ronin (samurai tidak bertuan) kebanyakan Samurai Retainer ini askar yang kalah Perang Sekigahara (1600) dan Samurai yang beragama Kristian...

HangPC2

Banda Naira (Naira Island) Maluku (Moluccas) Massacre (1621)


One tragic event in the island's history was the slaughter of 44 local notables'– referred to as Orang Kaya Banda – and hundreds of other Bandanese, led by the Netherlands East Indies Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, VOC) Governor General Jan Pieterzoon Coen on 8 May 1621. He brought in ronin, Japanese freelance samurai, to sadistically execute anyone who resisted. The Rante Monument now stands here to remind us of this brutality and their sacrifice in trying to defend the nation from colonial domination.





Jan Pieterzoon Coen

HangPC2

fungsi dia macam askar gurkha..... selepas 1624  kerajaan Tokugawa Melarang Samurai berkhidmat dengan Negara Asing.....

HangPC2

setahu saya bukan Negara Jepun mempunyai Hubungan Dengan Melaka tapi sebenar Kerajaan Ryukyu..... yang sekarang dikenali sebagai Okinawa....  Bahasa Pakaian pun berbeza dengan jepun.....

manuskrip_lama

hehe...btol2 hangPC2..bukan ryoka tp ryukyu..
sory otai2 seme..

HangPC2

Lagi awal datang Ke Tanah Melayu


The monk who came to Johor 1,100 years ago


Anis Ibrahim

2009/01/12

WHEN ninth-century Japanese monk Shinnyo (Imperial Prince Takaoka (799-881) left China on Jan 27, 865, to study Buddhism in India, it did not cross his mind that his final resting place would be a province on the southern tip of the Malay peninsula.







PRINCELY PRESENCE: A monk conducts a prayer session at the grave of Shinnyo at the Japanese Cemetery in Johor Baru. — Picture provided by the Japan Club of Johor



Although the exact location of his remains is unknown, there is a memorial headstone and shrine in honour of Shinnyo at the Japanese Cemetery in Johor Baru.

Born in 799, Prince Takaoka, as he was known at birth, was the third son of Emperor Heizei.

Although he later rose to become crown prince, Takaoka lost the designation. He then retired to become a monk in 822, taking the name Shinnyo.

Records state that while studying Buddhism in China, he decided to go to India to study the religion further and set out in 865 from Kwang Chu (probably modern-day Guangzhou).

Shinnyo, however, never reached his destination and at age 67, died in 866 in what is now Johor.

And for that reason alone, the headstone at the cemetery in Jalan Kebun Teh could be the oldest record of Japanese presence in Malaysia.

Japan Club of Johor secretary-general Nishikawa Takeshi said it was a mystery how Shinnyo ended up in Johor.

“It’s possible that he may have lost his way. Or perhaps he really did intend to stop here.

“All we know is that he never fulfilled his dream of going to India.




HONOURING THE DEAD: A boy and his father pray and place flowers at a grave at the Japanese cemetery.


“Because of the hardship he went through, in 1970, the head monk in Shinnyo’s order honoured him with this plaque.”

According to the club’s records, the cemetery was discovered in 1962 when development work was carried out in the area.

When the land was cleared further, 80 gravestones with Japanese writing were found, most of them broken.

Takeshi also points to an order dated April 13, 1924, by the Japanese government for the local Japanese community to manage and maintain the site.

“We believe that the cemetery was started by the community because they needed a place for their deceased.

“This means that Japanese were already staying here at the time.”

Research is consistent with this notion because there are records of Japanese businesses in Johor involved in the mining, commerce and plantation industries in the 1920s.

In fact, Johor had enjoyed good relations with Japan in the 19th century when Sultan Abu Bakar visited the country in the early 1880s.

Ties, it is reported, were strengthened when his son, Sultan Ibrahim, was bestowed an award by Emperor Hirohito.

Takeshi said since 1992, the Japan Club of Johor had been receiving monetary support from the Japanese embassy in Kuala Lumpur to manage and maintain the cemetery, which is cleaned every month.

“We also hold prayer sessions to honour the deceased twice a year, usually in March and September. We invited a praymaster from Japan to do this.”


- NST -

sekngucing

kenapa org melaka suka menentang kerajaan sendiri

HangPC2

Kapal Red Seal Ship @ 朱印船 Shuinsen (1630)



were Japanese armed merchant sailing ships bound for Southeast Asian ports with a red-sealed patent issued by the early Tokugawa shogunate in the first half of the 17th century. Between 1600 and 1635, more than 350 Japanese ships went overseas under this permit system.











Record of a Red Seal license, dated January 11th, 1608.

changkatlobak

owh  begitu rupanya

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Reply 1# unekspekted_XII


    Ada snap gambar pedang tu x?

roces96

kagoshima mmg terkenal dgn samurai satu masa dulu...

pawangBuaya

Reply 8# HangPC2

lain eh Ryukyu ngan Jepun?
ke same gak tapi bangsa laain lain macam zaman dinasti kat china tu?
ce cite sket..
kalo ade gambar pasal pakaian ke ape ke tunjuk la...

HangPC2

Reply  HangPC2

lain eh Ryukyu ngan Jepun?
ke same gak tapi bangsa laain lain macam zaman dinast ...
pawangBuaya Post at 7-6-2011 16:25

Kostum Orang Ryukyu (Okinawa)

HangPC2

Bingata (Okinawan Batik)















http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingata

pawangBuaya

Reply 17# HangPC2

mekasih mekasih..

kirenye mereka ni macam kisah kisah kat China jugak la..
ade Han ade Manchu n sebagainya tu kan...
yang berbeza beza dinasti dan berlainan budaya setiap dinasti la..  
kan? betulkan fahaman aku ni jika salah..

slax

org dulu2 tak pandang hebat pun org jepun zaman tu..   .. org skrg je pandang samurai tu hebat,, sbb org jepun skrg nampat hebat

mungkin dulu2 diorg tgk jepun mcm org skrg pandang org nepal/bangla pada zaman skrg nih