Gyohin - Gyohin

First, the central government established a nine-rank system of officials, ranging from rank 1 to rank 9, replacing the ranks based on numbers such as 2,000 koku up until the Han dynasty, and called these official ranks "guanpin." Next, an official called Zhongzheng was placed in each county in the region, who was entrusted with examining the qualifications of people from that region, investigating the talents and virtues of current government officials and those aspiring to become government officials from that county, and had them report to the government on a rank from rank 1 to rank 9 according to their talents and virtues, which were called "go-pin." The government then appointed people to posts of the appropriate official ranks corresponding to the nine ranks of the go-pin.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Gohin" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…　まず中央政府に一品から九品にいたる品階による九品官制をたて，漢代までの秩2000石といった秩数による等級に代え，これを官品と称した。つぎに地方の郡に中正という官をおき，その地方出身者の資格審査を委任し，その郡出身の現任官吏あるいは官吏志望者の才能徳行を調査し，その才徳に従って同じく一品から九品にわかって政府に報告させ，これを郷品と称した。政府は，この郷品の九等に対応する適当な官品のポストに登用したのである。…

※「郷品」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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