However, the imperial court or the authority themselves were big owners of shoens and there also existed the shoens belonging to the imperial court (the naishotakushi during the Tang dynasty and the gosho during the Sung dynasty), eidenkansho (the manor cultivated for the military purpose) or tondengunsho (the manor cultivated for the military purpose) which was made around military strategic spots in order to secure army provisions by the cultivation and settlement of ex-legionary, the manors such as botsukanden (confiscated fields) and so on.
もっとも、宮廷や官庁自身も荘園の一大所有者であり、宮廷に属する荘園（唐の内荘宅使、宋の御荘）や軍事的要所の周囲にて兵糧確保のために開墾・屯田によって形成された営田官荘および屯田軍荘、その他民間から没収して没官田の官荘なども存在していた。