The Sakai Incident refers to the case in which a retainers of the Tosa Domain committed seppuku (suicide by disembowelment) to accept the responsibility for the killing of French sailors in Sakai City, Izumi Province in 1868.
堺事件（さかいじけん）は、慶応4年（1868年）に和泉国堺市で起きた、フランス水兵殺害の責を負って土佐藩士が切腹した事件。