Bakumatsu
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English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Japanese 幕末 (bakumatsu).
Proper noun
[edit]Bakumatsu
- (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.