Kindai shakaku seido is a shrine ranking system that was newly established after the Meiji Restoration, being modeled after the system stipulated in the Engishiki (an ancient book for codes and procedures on national rites and prayers) under the ritsuryo system (a system of centralized government based on the ritsuryo code).
近代社格制度（きんだいしゃかくせいど）とは、明治維新以降、律令制下の延喜式による制度にならって新たに作られた社格の制度である。