For gifts and bribes, unlike public employees today, who are able to pay at public expense, koke members and attendants for Imperial messengers had to pay their own expenses.
また進物や賄賂についても、公費の予算から支出される現代の公務員と異なり、高家や勅使饗応役の大名は必要経費を自弁しなければならなかった。