sentences:  Kugyō
  
  
  
  As part of the Meiji reforms, a single aristocratic class, the "kazoku", was created in 1869 by merging the "kuge" (the court nobility in Kyoto, of which the kugyō was a part) and the "daimyōs" (the feudal land holders and warriors).In the 1870s, the organizational structure of the court itself was also modernized.