尊そん王のう討とう幕ばく

noun

revere the emperor and overthrow the shogunate

Historical slogan and political concept from the late Edo period, associated with the sonnō jōi movement. Used as a noun referring to the ideology or the movement itself.

• 尊そん王のう討とう幕ばくは、幕ばく末まつの志し士したちの合あい言こと葉ばだった。

  Revere the emperor and overthrow the shogunate was the watchword of the loyalists at the end of the Edo period.