Later, the authority of Dazai Gonnosochi was absorbed into the local resident officials who assisted Dazai Gonnosochi; MINAMOTO no Shigetaka during the Hoan era was the last Dazai Gonnosochi who served in the office at Dazaifu, and thereafter, Dazai Gonnosochi became held by absentee officials (During the Jisho era, FUJIWARA no Motofusa was demoted to Dazai Gonnosochi and FUJIWARA no Takasue was appointed Dazai no sochi to keep an eye on Motofusa, but as Motofusa entered into priesthood in Bizen Province on the way to Dazaifu and permitted to stay there, the dispatch of the two officials was canceled.)
その後、在庁官人に権力が移り、保安(元号)年間の源重賢を最後に権帥も遙任化していった（治承年間に藤原基房が左遷によって大宰権帥となりその監視の為に藤原隆季が大宰帥に任じられた例があるが、基房が途中の備前国で出家して同地に留まる事を許されたために派遣が中止されている）。