(In the ritsuryo system, or the old system of Japanese government based on the penal and civil codes, government officials of the Fifth Rank and higher could wear raifuku and chofuku (clothes worn by the nobility when attending Court), while officials of the Sixth Rank and lower wore only chofuku.)
（律令制度では五位以上の官僚の服には礼服と朝服とがあり、六位以下には朝服のみがあった。)