ヒュースケンの葬列 — 命を落とすと警告されても、五カ国の公使は誰一人ためらわなかった

異國人旅宿は、麻布善福寺亞米利加、赤羽接遇所フルエス、高繩東禪寺芝西應寺英吉利、三田大增寺濟海寺月岬正覺寺佛蘭西、伊皿子長應寺阿蘭陀、三田大中寺魯西亞等なり

He had been waylaid on his return from the Prussian Legation by a band of assassins, and mortally wounded.

I received a brief note from Mr. Harris asking me to send surgical aid to Mr. Heuskin, who had been brought in wounded. At midnight Dr. Myburgh, a medical officer attached to the British Legation in the capacity of Dutch Interpreter, went off immediately, but soon returned with information that his patient was dead.

the American Minister received a warning from the Government, that if they persevered in their intention of following the body to the grave, they were likely to lose their own lives

No one hesitated

not a soldier called out — but there was a total absence of any precautions to prevent a surprise or sudden attack along the line of road, which lay for more than a mile by the banks of a river ; and offered great facilities of attack from cross-roads leading to it, and bridges which traversed it at short intervals.

A greeting had come to the assembled Ministers of the Five Powers, when met together at the American Legation, to follow the last victim of this Machiavellian policy

On the fourth day after, all the Corps Diplomatique and the Consular body from Kanagawa assembled by invitation at the American Legation to render the last honours to the murdered man／met, by common consent, the next day at the British Legation to consider their position, and what course it behoved them to take, not merely for their own safety; but for the honour and dignity of their respective Sovereigns

As the funereal cortege wound its way from the American Legation to the burial-place … It was the middle of January, but the sun shined brightly, and not a fleck or a cloud was in the sky to dim its lustre.

In the centre of the group is a Roman Catholic priest in his white robes, and on a terrace above the heads of all stand five Japanese dignitaries, Governors of Foreign Affairs, whose attendance is any thing but voluntary on their part. These, dressed in their Haka-ma of ceremony, look coldly down upon the scene at their feet.

The flags of four Treaty Powers are there, to which those of Prussia, not yet in the number, is joined, and to the right the Representatives of those Powers are all present, surrounded by a strong guard of Prussian marines, no ship of war of any other nation being at the anchorage.

The place of interment was the same I had selected just one year before, when my linguist was slain at the gate of the Legation.

The bier is covered by the American flag, for, though Dutch by birth, the murdered official was a servant of the United States

as the service proceeded, notes of sadness filled the air from the band of the Prussian frigate — a wail of sorrow and complaint.

The flags are lowered, while with uncovered heads the Ministers each cast in a handful of earth.

though Dutch by birth, the murdered official was a servant of the United States … A foreigner in his prime, the only son of a widowed mother

By the side of the newly-closed grave was a plain tablet, distinguished from all the rest by its Roman characters, 'Dankirche, Japanese linguist to the British Legation, murdered by Japanese assassins on January 21, 1860 ;' and this was January 18, 1861, when another Legation had furnished its annual victim

葬式はどういふ關係からであるか、善福寺では執行せられず、さほどには遠からぬ廣尾の光林寺で營まれ、その亡骸はその裏手の岡に登る墓地に埋葬せられた

和蘭陀語に通ずる事の必要から、和蘭陀人にしてまた米國人なる其人を伴つて來た。本國には一人の母がゐたと云ふ

ヒュースケンは後に米國の公使館が九段下から麻布善福寺の境内に移されてから、一夜芝赤羽橋外異人接遇所から馬でかへる道すがら、薪河岸で日本の刺客數人に襲はれ重傷を負ひ、善福寺境内の公使館に入ると間もなく息を引取つた

史跡 昭和56.10.24指定／光林寺／南麻布4-11-25

唐破風の笠をもつ長方形石塔／SACRED/ to the Memory of/ HENRY C. J. HEUSKEN…DIED AT YEDO/ January 16, 1861

ヒュースケンは、アメリカの通訳兼書記として安政3年(1856)7月下田に到着し、さらに江戸に入り、総領事ハリスの片腕となって、困難な日米間の折衝に活躍し、日米修好通商条約締結にも尽力します。ヒュースケンは、その快活な性格と日本語に通じていたことによって、江戸の人々にも知られていました／BORN At AMSTERDAM/ January 20, 1832.

その葬列は、幕府の外国奉行・5か国の弔旗・アメリカの国旗で被われたヒュースケンの柩・各国の公使領事ら・プロシアの軍楽隊・護衛の海兵隊などからなり／光林寺の墓地では、まずジラール神父によりローマ・カトリックの儀式が行われ、その後日本の僧侶による供養がなされました

12月5日午後9時頃、善福寺へ帰る途中、一団の浪士に襲撃され、刀で腹部を深く切られて落馬

毎日のように麻布からプロシア公使の宿所であり協議の会場でもあった赤羽接遇所に馬で通っていた

此年の十二月五日、八郞の同志として莫逆の間柄となれる薩藩の伊牟田尙平・樋渡八兵衛等が、米國公使館通譯ヒュースケンを麻布古川端に斬るに至つて