the higher ranking person wears the longer train . 身分が高いほど裾が長い。
higher ranking samurai of several thousand koku class became a samurai daisho . 士大将は主に数千石クラスの大身がなる。
actually , i can only be relieved by a higher ranking officer in my chain of command . 私を解任できるのは正当な 指揮系統の上官だけです
however , hideyoshi was appointed to kampaku , a higher ranking position than seii taishogun . だが、秀吉は征夷大将軍より格上の関白に任ぜられた。
therefore , there are more guji than gonnegi , even though the guji is a higher ranking priest than the gonnegi . そのため、職階別で見ると、最も人数が多いのは最下位の権禰宜ではなく最上位の宮司である。