Furthermore, the powerful groups that executed the chigo right over many manors as a ryoshu of shoen or executed the chigyo right over the entire public land in a province as a chigyo-koku (provincial fiefdom) (described later), typically including Sekkan-ke (the families which produced regents) and kanji (state-sponsored temples), reigned over them.
さらにその上には荘園領主としていくつもの荘園を知行し、また後述の知行国の形で一国の公領もろとも知行する摂関家や官寺に代表される権門が君臨した。