In the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, it began to be used often as a disparaging name to refer to 'seiyo kabure' (ultra-Westernized persons) by joi-ha faction (the antiforeigner faction) like the Mito clan. |
幕末期にいたって、水戸藩など攘夷派から「西洋かぶれ」の意で、蔑称として用いられる例が多くなった。 |