華か族ぞく制せい度ど

noun

peerage system; aristocratic class system

Historical term referring to the Meiji-era system of peerage ranks (1869–1947), modeled after European nobility.

• 華か族ぞく制せい度どは明めい治じ時じ代だいに導どう入にゅうされ、戦せん後ごに廃はい止しされた。

  The peerage system was introduced in the Meiji period and abolished after the war.