Significant1540 – 1567 · 27 years

Jiajing wokou raids

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Zhejiang · Jiangnan · Fujian · Guangdong coast

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Peak of mid-16th-century 'wokou' pirate raiding (mostly Chinese, with Japanese and Portuguese crews) along China's southeast coast during the Jiajing reign, driven by Ming maritime-prohibition policy and suppressed by generals such as Qi Jiguang by 1567.

Belligerents2

Ming dynasty
Wokou (pirate confederations)

ON THE MAPMing Dynasty

Sources

Wikipedia: Jiajing wokou raids
Ming Shi; Kwan-wai So, Japanese Piracy in Ming China
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1540 and opens this record.

Cite as: Jiajing wokou raids (1540 – 1567). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/jiajing-wokou-raids · Sources & methodology