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Ranks are often confused with offices or [[titles]], such as Dainagon, Shonagon, Udaijin, etc. Although each office was assigned a rank, it did not necessarily mean that the officeholder held that rank.
Ranks are often confused with offices or [[titles]], such as Dainagon, Shonagon, Udaijin, etc. Although each office was assigned a rank, it did not necessarily mean that the officeholder held that rank.
Nobles of third rank and above were sometimes called ''Gekkei'', or "moon lords," and those of the fifth and sixth ranks ''unkaku'' ("cloud dwellers"), poetic references alongside the Imperial Court as heaven and the Emperor as the sun.<ref>Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), Told Round a Brushwood Fire, University of Tokyo Press (1979), 303n118.</ref>
==Cap Ranks of [[Empress Suiko|Suiko Tenno]]==
==Cap Ranks of [[Empress Suiko|Suiko Tenno]]==
* [[Shoku Nihongi]]
* [[Shoku Nihongi]]
* 2006, "A User-Friendly Timeline of Ancient Japanese History (with furigana): From the earliest times to 1155", Yoshikawa Kobunkan, ISBN 4-642-01436-5.
* 2006, "A User-Friendly Timeline of Ancient Japanese History (with furigana): From the earliest times to 1155", Yoshikawa Kobunkan, ISBN 4-642-01436-5.
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==See also==
==See also==