Jushii (Junior Fourth Rank) and lower ranks had been divided into two ("higher" and "lower") but such division was abolished, and court ranks were reorganized into eighteen stages from Shoichii (Senior First Rank) to Shosoi (Later Shokui (Senior Ninth Rank) was newly created and the number of court ranks increased to twenty on September 25, 1869).
従来、従四位以下にあった上下を廃止し、位階を正一位から少初位まで全18階とする（同年8月20日（1869年9月25日）、正九位を新設し、全20階とする。）。