Bakumatsu
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Japanese 幕末 (bakumatsu).
Proper noun
editBakumatsu
- (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.