Meiji government, which was established through Restoration of Imperial Rule (Japan) after Japan opened herself to the world at the late Edo period, abolished daimyo (Japanese feudal lord) and samurai hierarchy and set up the peerage and shizoku under the policy of equity of all people.
江戸時代後期に開国し、王政復古(日本)により成立した明治政府は四民平等政策のもと、大名、武士階級を廃止して華族、士族を創設する。