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Etymology

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Borrowed from Japanese 幕末 (bakumatsu).

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Bakumatsu

  1. (historical) The final years of the Edo period, between 1853 and 1867, when Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy and changed from a feudal Tokugawa shogunate to the pre-modern empire of the Meiji government.