Etymology

Bakumatsu

B3A1K5U1M3A1T1S1U1

Today it means: 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. Full definition →

Japanese 幕末
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Japanese · derived from幕府
  2. Japanese · borrowed from幕末
  3. English todayBakumatsu

Borrowed from Japanese 幕末 (bakumatsu), literally "end of the curtain". The "curtain", 幕 (baku), is from Japanese 幕府 (bakufu), originally referring to a military encampment for a commander, and then extended to the Shogunate's government.

Words from the same roots

Japanese幕府 all →

bakufu

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.