In addition, when a daimyo's territory was changed or someone of a daimyo family died, one of the officers was sent as an envoy of the shogun, and an officer in this post sometimes participated in Buddhist memorial services of the Tokugawa shogun family or gosanke (three privileged Tokugawa branch families) in place of the shogun when the shogun had to be absent.
更に大名の転封などの重大な決定や大名家の不幸に際して上使として派遣されたり、徳川将軍家及び御三家の法要において、将軍が参列できない場合の代参を行うこともあった。