goseibai

Updated: May 22, 2025

But in the thirteenth, the aim of Yasutoki and his fellow legislators was to render the laws intelligible to all, and with that object they were indited mostly in the kana syllabary. *Called also the Kwanto Goseibai Shikimoku. There was no intention of suppressing the Daiho code. The latter was to remain operative in all regions to which the sway of the Kyoto Court extended direct.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era