Sonnō jōi
Nationalist slogan in 1850s Japan
Sonnō jōi
Sonnō jōi (尊王攘夷; "revere the emperor, expel the barbarians") was a yojijukugo (four-character compound) phrase used as the rallying cry and slogan of a political movement in Japan in the 1850s and 1860s, during the Bakumatsu period. Based on Neo-Confucianism and Japanese nativism, the movement sought to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate and restore the power of the Emperor of Japan.
Read on Wikipedia · Image Ippōsai Yoshifuji (Japanese, 1828–1887) (一鵬斎芳藤), Public domain
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