https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Peers_(Japan)
WebIn 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. A second imperial ordinance in 1884 grouped the kazoku into five ranks equivalent to the European aristocrats: prince (or duke), marquis, …