Socially, Gunji had traditional authority as well as enormous financial power, and maintained the order of local societies by relieving poor peasants as "influential local Gozoku."
社会的側面としては、郡司は任地における伝統的権威とともに豊富な財力を有しており、貧農の救済など地方社会の秩序維持に”地方の有力豪族”として努めた。