Where does “Bakumatsu” come from?

Bakumatsu (English) comes from Japanese 幕末, from Japanese 末, from Old Japanese 末.

Bakumatsu (English): The final years of the Edo period, between 1853 and 1867, when Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy and changed from a feudal Tokugawa shogunate to the pre-modern empire of the Meiji government

Definitions

The final years of the Edo period, between 1853 and 1867, when Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy and changed from a feudal Tokugawa shogunate to the pre-modern empire of the Meiji government

Ancestry of “Bakumatsu”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Japanese	幕末	the final years of the Edo era
2	Japanese	末	the last; the end; last child, youngest child;...
3	Old Japanese	末	—

Every word from Old Japanese 末 →Every word from Japanese 末 →Every word from Japanese 幕末 →