攘じょう夷い論ろん

noun

principle of expelling foreigners; anti-foreigner ideology

Historical term referring to the late Edo period ideology that advocated the expulsion of Westerners from Japan. Often associated with the sonnō jōi movement.

• 攘じょう夷い論ろんは幕ばく末まつの政せい治じ思し想そうの一ひとつだった。

  The principle of expelling foreigners was one of the political ideologies of the late Edo period.

• 攘じょう夷い論ろんを唱となえる武ぶ士したちがいた。

  There were samurai who advocated the anti-foreigner ideology.