攘じょう夷い

noun

expulsion of foreigners

Historical term referring to the anti-foreigner movement in late Edo-period Japan, often associated with the slogan 尊皇攘夷 (revere the emperor, expel the barbarians).

See also: 尊王攘夷

• 幕ばく末まつの攘じょう夷い運うん動どうは、外がい国こく船せんの来らい航こうに反はん対たいする動うごきだった。

  The expulsion-of-foreigners movement at the end of the Edo period opposed the arrival of foreign ships.

• 尊皇攘夷そんのうじょういの思し想そうは、明めい治じ維い新しんの原げん動どう力りょくの一ひとつとなった。

  The ideology of 'revere the emperor, expel the barbarians' became one of the driving forces of the Meiji Restoration.