Bakumatsu (幕末, "End of the bakufu ") was the final years of the Edo period when the Tokugawa shogunate ended.Between 1853 and 1867, Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy known as sakoku and changed from a feudal Tokugawa shogunate to the modern empire of the Meiji government.The major ideological-political divide during this period was between the pro …

Cheragh Khan Zahedi (Persian: چراغ خان زاهدی, also spelled Cherag), also known as Pirzadeh (پیرزاده), was an Iranian officer in Safavid Iran, who served as the head of the royal bodyguard (qurchi-bashi) from 1631 until his death in 1632.. Biography. Cheragh Khan was the son of a certain Shaikh Sharif and a descendant of Zahed Gilani, the prominent Iranian grandmaster (), and ...