討とう幕ばく

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

attacking the shogunate; overthrowing the shogunate

Historical term referring to the movement or act of attempting to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate, especially in the late Edo period. Used as a noun or with する to mean 'to attempt to overthrow the shogunate'.

• 討とう幕ばく運うん動どうは幕ばく末まつに活かっ発ぱつ化かした。

  The movement to overthrow the shogunate intensified at the end of the Edo period.

• 彼かれらは討とう幕ばくを企くわだてた。

  They plotted to overthrow the shogunate.