noun
Tokugawa Yoshinobu's resignation as Minister of the Interior and surrender of shogunate territories
Historical term referring to a key event during the Meiji Restoration, when the last shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, resigned his court post and returned the shogunate's lands to the emperor.
辞官納地は、明治維新の重要な転換点の一つである。
The resignation and surrender of territories was one of the important turning points of the Meiji Restoration.
大政奉還 refers to the formal return of political power from the shogunate to the emperor, while 辞官納地 specifically refers to Yoshinobu's resignation from his court office and the surrender of the shogunate's land holdings.
Compound of 辞官 (resignation from a government post) and 納地 (surrender of land). The term is historically specific to the actions of Tokugawa Yoshinobu in 1867.