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Each of the First to Third Ranks is divided into Senior (正, shō) and Junior (従, ju).The Senior First Rank (正一位, shō ichi-i) is the highest in the rank system. It is conferred mainly on a very limited number of persons recognized by the Imperial Court as most loyal to the nation during that era.
The holders of the top two ranks, prince and marquess, automatically became members of the House of Peers in the Diet of Japan upon their succession or upon majority (in the case of peers who were minors). Counts, viscounts and barons elected up to 150 representatives from their ranks to sit in the House of Peers.
The five ranks of kazoku were distinguishable by the color of the embroidery around their sleeves and collars, and on the right side of their hats. Dukes had purple, marquis scarlet, counts pink, viscounts pale yellow, and barons light green. Hat A black bicorne hat with white ostrich feather plumage. Coat A black tailcoat with a mandarin collar.
Emperor Meiji in a formal session of the House of Peers. Ukiyo-e woodblock print by Yōshū Chikanobu, 1890. In 1869, under the new Meiji government, a Japanese peerage was created by an Imperial decree merging the former court nobility and former feudal lords into a single new aristocratic class called the kazoku.
In Goryeo Dynasty, there were two ranks similar to that of duke. The upper was Gukgong (Korean: 국공; Hanja: 國公; lit. duke of the nation). Gukgong was the first rank of Goryeo peerage system, and 3,000 families gave their agricultural production and workforce for Gukgong. The lower was Gungong (Korean: 군공; Hanja: 郡公; lit.
On Itō's return, one of the first acts of the government was to establish the kazoku peerage system with new ranks for the nobility. Five hundred persons from the old court nobility, former daimyō, samurai and commoners who had provided valuable service to the government were organized in five ranks: prince, marquis, count, viscount, and baron.
Ranged Marquis (Chinese: 列侯; pinyin: Liè Hóu, originally Chinese: 徹侯; pinyin: Chè Hóu) was a rank of the Chinese nobility that existed from the Warring States period to the Chen dynasty. Warring States period and Qin dynasty
In 1920, per a revision in the Imperial Household Law, he lost his status as an imperial prince, and became a member of the kazoku with the peerage title of marquis (kōshaku) on 20 July. He was promoted to the military rank of lieutenant from the same date, and was also conferred with the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun.