Bakumatsu

English Etymology Borrowed from en ja 幕末 bakumatsu, literally "end of the curtain". The "curtain", ja 幕 baku, is from en ja 幕府 bakufu, originally referring to a military encampment for a commander, and then extended to the Shogunate's government. Proper noun en Q804558 en History of Japan en 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.