This new "nobility" was on its way, the learning process just beginning.

This institution was soon followed by that of the new nobility.

The new nobility existed due to the organization of society.

The result was that control over the state fell, not onto the shoulders of voters, but to the new plebeian nobility.

I don't see this system giving any special legal rights to the new nobility.

I have worked out how to castrate the nobility, old or new makes no difference.

Their extended family then became part of the new nobility in the Meiji era.

In the Meiji era, they became part of the new nobility.

"Actually, I guess, in a way, we're the new nobility so few of us have seen that."

Thus, the state required service from both the old and the new nobility, primarily in the military.