bansha no goku

{{More citations needed|date=November 2024}}The Bansha no goku (蛮社の獄, literally "Indictment of the society for western (or barbarian) study") refers to the 1839 suppression of scholars of Western Studies (rangaku) by the Edo Shogunate government of Japan.{{Cite book |last=Louis-Frédéric |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&dq=Bansha+no+goku&pg=PA70 |title=Japan Encyclopedia |date=2002 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-01753-5 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Nakamura |first=Ellen Gardner |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rAD8EAAAQBAJ&dq=Bansha+no+goku&pg=PA21 |title=Practical Pursuits: Takano Chōei, Takahashi Keisaku, and Western Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Japan |date=2020-03-17 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-1-68417-422-5 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Jaundrill |first=D. Colin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fu-vDAAAQBAJ&dq=Bansha+no+goku&pg=PA25 |title=Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan |date=2016-07-09 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-1-5017-0664-6 |language=en}}

The incident was provoked by criticism of the isolationist sakoku policy due to actions such as the Morrison Incident when an unarmed American merchant ship was fired upon under the Edict to Repel Foreign Ships.

Among those who suffered from this action were Watanabe Kazan, Takano Chōei and Koseki Sanei.