Regulations on the return of family stipends to those who received them - Regulations on the return of family stipends to those who received them

...In August 1876, the Meiji government promulgated the Ordinance for the Issuance of Gold-stipend Public Bonds, abolishing the payment of stipends to the nobility.
[Feudal lords and samurai class after the Meiji Restoration]
In the early modern period, the strict social order that existed among the Shogunate's retainers and the samurai clans of each feudal domain rapidly collapsed during the upheaval of the late Edo period and the Meiji Restoration. However, some nobles and samurai who had contributed to the Restoration were still able to hold important government positions regardless of their previous social status. Reflecting the above circumstances, in June 1869 (Meiji 2), the government decided to refer to feudal lords and nobles as aristocrats and samurai as shizoku (including all clans and lower classes down to commoners), in an attempt to streamline the social order within the samurai class.

*Some of the terminology used in the "Rules for the Receipt of Funds by Those Who Return Their Family Stipends" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…1876年8月，明治政府が金禄公債証書発行条例を公布し，華士族への家禄支給を全廃した処置。
［維新後の領主･武士層］
　近世期に，幕臣･各藩武士団内部のそれぞれがもっていた厳しい身分秩序は，幕末･維新の動乱のなかで急速に崩れていった。しかし，それでも維新に功のあった一部の公家･武士は，旧来の身分にかかわりなく政府の要職につくことができた。1869年(明治2)6月，政府が領主･公卿を華族，武士を〈一門以下平士ニ至ル総テ〉士族と称することを達して，武士層内部の身分秩序の整理をはかったのは，以上の事情を反映したものである。…

※「家禄奉還ノ者資金被下方規則」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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