hebiishi

Updated: May 27, 2025

But once invested with Court rank, they might be promoted in grade without any further recommendation, while they were free to accept the position of hebiishi. Analogous restrictions were placed on the Kwanto clergy, who were to be summarily removed from their benefices if found appealing to Kyoto for promotion, the only exception being in favour of Zen-shu priests.

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