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Sonnō jōi was a yojijukugo 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.
Image: Ippōsai Yoshifuji (Japanese, 1828–1887) (一鵬斎芳藤), Public domain · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0