Kazoku - Kazoku The kazoku (華族, lit. "flowery lineage") was the hereditary peerage of Japan that existed between 1869 and 1947. The Meiji oligarchs, as part of their Westernizing reforms, merged the kuge (the court nobility in Kyoto) and the daimyo (or feudal lords) into a single aristocratic class in 1869. Ito Hirobumi, one of the leaders of the Meiji Restoration and later the principal author of the 1889 Constitution of the Empire of Japan, intended the kazoku to serve a political and social bulwark for the "restored" emperor and the Japanese imperial institution. In addition to the existing Japanese nobility, the Meiji leadership also awarded kazoku status to those regarded as having performed outstanding service to the country. In 1884, the government took the further step of.
House of Peers - House of Representatives (Shūgiin). In 1869, the leaders of new government had the Emperor Meiji issue an imperial ordinance that merged the daimyo and the kuge into a single aristocratic class, the kozoku. A second imperial ordinance in 1884, grouped the kazoku into five ranks equivalent to the European prince (or duke), marquis, count, viscount, and baron. The House of Peers originally comprised: all imperial princes (shinnō) and lesser princes of the imperial blood (ō) over the age of twenty, all princes and marquis over the age of thirty, 150 elected representatives of the counts, viscounts, and barons, 150 additional members nominated by the Emperor, in consultation with the Privy Council, and 66 elected representatives of the 6,000 highest taxpayers. During the first session of the Imperial Diet (1889-890), there were.
Aozora Bunko: A - Bunko: A See Aozora Bunko Aah kazoku sama dayo to watashi ha uso wo tsuku nodeatta by On Watanabe (August 26,1902 - February 10,1930) Ababababa by Ryunosuke Akutagawa (March 1,1892 - July 24,1927) Abe ichizoku (Abe family) by Ogai Mori (February 17,1862 - July 9,1922) Aburae shin gihou by Narashige Koide (October 13,1887 - February 13,1931) Ada utare gesaku by Fubo Hayashi (January 17,1900 - June 29,1935) Adauchi kinshirei by Kan Kikuchi (December 26,1888 - March 6,1948) Adauchi santai by Kan Kikuchi (December 26,1888 - March 6,1948) Aguni no kami by Ryunosuke Akutagawa (March 1,1892 - July 24,1927) Ah Aki (Oh, fall) by Osamu Dazai (June 19,1909 - June 13,1948) Ahen (Opium) by Ryunosuke Akutagawa (March 1,1892 - July 24,1927) Ai irono hiki by Takuji Ote (December 3,1887 - April 18,1934).
List of Japan-related topics - Breen, Jinenkan, Jingo of Japan, Jirachi, Jiro Watanabe, Jito, Jiu jitsu, Jizo, Jo (weapon), Jodo Shinshu, Joetsu, JOJO's Bizarre Adventure, Jojutsu, Jokichi Takamine, Jokyu incident, Jomon, Josei, Joyo, JR Kobe Line, JR Namba Station, JSL, Judo, Jun Tsuji, Junji Ito, Jusenkyo, Juso Station, Just in time, JVC K Kabuki, Kadoma, Kaga, Kaga province, Kagawa prefecture, Kagerou, Kagome, Kagome Higurashi, Kagoshima, Kagoshima prefecture, Kai province, Kaibara, Kaibun, Kaifu Toshiki, Kaigan Line, Kaiji Kawaguchi, Kaiju, Kainan, Kaizen, Kajii Motojiro, Kajukenbo, Kakamigahara, Kakegawa, Kakigori, Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, Kakogawa, Kakuda, Kakuna Kama, Kamaboko, Kamagaya, Kamaishi, Kamakura, Kamakura, Kanagawa, Kamakura period, Kamakura shogunate, Kamato Hongo, Kamehameha Wave, Kameoka, Kameyama, Kameyama, Mie, Kami, Kami (dragonball), Kamifukuoka, Kamikaze, Kamikawa Aya, Kamikawa subprefecture, Kaminoyama, Kamo, Kamogawa, Kamou, Aira, Kagoshima, Kan'onji, Kana, Kana-Kanji conversion system, Kanagawa prefecture, Kanazawa, Kanda Station,.
