Simply, otsukegaro was Ometsuke (chief inspector of the Edo bakufu, Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) for the lord of a domain, sent from the Shogun family, and in the Owari Domain, the Narusehayato no kami family and the Takenokoshi Hyobu shoyu family were well-known and their Chigyo daka (a stipend in terms of rice production of the fief) were large.
御附家老とは、単純に言えば将軍家から派遣された藩主のお目付け役であり、尾張では成瀬隼人正（なるせはやとのかみ）家と竹腰兵部少輔（たけのこしひょうぶしょうゆう）家が知行高も大きく著名であった。