Jikatasanyaku meant the three officers of a village, shoya (nanushi [a village headman]), kumigashira (toshiyori [a head of the group]) and hyakushodai (a village headman) who conducted village government in accordance with instructions from the official agents.
庄屋、組頭（年寄）、百姓代という村政を担う3種の村役人全体を指す。