However, having been donated shoen, major aristocrats (the great and powerful) and major temples became honke (the owner of the highest-grade patches of land under the stratified land ruling) or ryoke (lords of the manors), and they exercised their political power as the lords of shoen.
しかし、荘園の寄進を受けて本家や領家となった大貴族（権門勢家）・大寺社などの荘園領主はみずからの政治権力を行使した。