Definition of "bakufu" []

• Curtain-government, that is, the government or council of the former shoguns of Japan: so called in allusion to the curtain used in time of war to screen off that part of the camp occupied by the general or shogun. See shogun. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "It was only when the bakufu was gone that the shishi could evaluate the response to the new influx of Westerners on its own merits."
• "Serious political choices were made in the mid-19th century based on arguments of ‘my family was on the winning/losing side at Sekigahara and I therefore owe the Tokugawa bakufu loyalty for the reward we recieved/enmity for the reduction in my families fortunes.’"
• "The bakufu engaged in the second Chsh expedition to punish it for extremist activities."