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: ''For Kugyō, the Buddhist monk who in 1291 assassinated Kamakura shogun Minamoto no Sanetomo, see Kugyō (Minamoto no Yoshinari)".'' is the collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras. The kugyō was broadly divided into two groups: the , comprising the Chancellor of the Realm, the Minister of the Left, and the Minister of the Right; and the , comprising the Major Counsellor, the Middle Counsellor, the , and members of the Japanese court of the third rank or higher. As part of the Meiji reforms, a single aristocratic class, the ''kazoku'', was created in 1869 by merging the ''kuge'' (the court nobility in Kyoto, of which the kugyō was a part) and the ''daimyo'' (the feudal land holders and warriors). In the 1870s, the organizational structure of the court itself was also modernized. In the period after the Second World War, the ''kazoku'' was abolished, as a part of post-war Japanese reforms. The remaining political powers of the Emperor were transferred to the constitutional government of Japan, and the responsibility for state matters concerning the Emperor and the Imperial family was consolidated entirely into the Imperial Household Agency. ==References== * Daijirin, 2nd edition * Daijisen, 1st edition * Kōjien, 6th edition 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「Kugyō」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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