公こう武ぶ合がっ体たい論ろん

noun

theory of uniting the court and the shogunate

A political idea from the late Edo period advocating cooperation between the imperial court and the Tokugawa shogunate to strengthen the country against foreign threats.

• 公こう武ぶ合がっ体たい論ろんは、幕ばく末まつの政せい局きょくで重じゅう要ような役やく割わりを果はたした。

  The theory of uniting the court and the shogunate played an important role in the political situation at the end of the Edo period.