さこく
Sakoku
鎖国 (Sakoku) is a Japanese noun meaning “national isolation, closing the country (to foreigners), sakoku, policy of national isolation enacted by the Tokugawa shogunate”.
Meanings
- noun, suru verbnational isolation; closing the country (to foreigners)
- nounsakoku; policy of national isolation enacted by the Tokugawa shogunate
Examples
まぁ、日本も鎖国していたわけだしなあ。
Well, after all Japan also cut itself off from the world.
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