郷ごう里り制せい

noun

township-neighbourhood system

Historical administrative system used in Japan between 715 and 740 CE, restructuring the earlier province-district-neighbourhood system into 50-home townships composed of 2–3 neighbourhoods each. Related to 国郡里制.

See also: 国郡里制

• 郷ごう里り制せいは奈な良ら時じ代だいの地ち方ほう行ぎょう政せい制せい度どの一ひとつである。

  The township-neighbourhood system was one of the local administrative systems of the Nara period.