Such a double master-servant relationship with the clan's direct retainers on the one hand and with the subjugated dogo (kokujin lords) on the other was long maintained up until the transfer of their territory to Choshu after the Battle of Sekigahara.
こうした直臣家臣団と従属土豪（国人領主）という二元的な主従関係は関ヶ原の合戦後の長州藩移封まで長く続いた。