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and were the two main castes of the classical Japan caste system. When the Ritsuryō legal system was starting to be enforced in Japan at the end of the 7th century, it included, as in Tang China, a division between those two major castes. The term Ryosensei (良賤制) describes the whole system. The Senmin caste, divided into five "genres", is also called Goshiki no Sen (五色の賤), the ''Senmin of five genres'', sometimes abbreviated to gosen (五賤). Caste was part of the citizen registration enforced with the ritsuryō. ==Ryōmin== The Ryōmin (lit. ''Good citizens'') were the upper-class, divided into the four following subcastes *Kanjin (官人) (loosely: government officer) *Kōmin (公民) (loosely: citizen) *Shinabe (品部) (loosely: high merchant) *Zakko (雑戸) (loosely: miscellaneous households) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Japanese castes under the ritsuryō」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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