Next, Ieyasu TOKUGAWA, on his victory at the Battle of Sekigahara, commenced the research on the kuge-ryo (the land and land rights of the kuge nobles), thereby allotting the fiefs ('chigyo') among the court nobles, which included the kinri goryo (the imperial property), the kuge-ryo and the monzeki-ryo (the property of an imperial priest of a temple at which the head priest had always been a member of the imperial family or of the nobility).
続いて徳川家康も関ヶ原の戦いに勝利すると直ちに公家領の調査を行い、禁裏御料（皇室領）以下の公家・門跡領の知行を宛がっている。