| 英文摘要 |
The Ancient Japanese Legal Status System was in fact a hierarchical system in its social structure. In its process of crystallization of ancient eastern cultural circle, which was patterned on ancient Chinese culture, the ancient Japanese state transformed the status system into a social hierarchical system of Chinese-style, while following legal system of Chinese Tang Dynasty. The status system was indeed the instrument by which the government controlled its people. In the so-called “community of the nobles”, the struggle and separation of classes remained. Analyzing from the identity and career of the noble and the humble, their rights and duties (esp. privileges) in social life in ancient Japanese society, the division of three social classes, that of noble, citizen and humble, could be completed. |
