All the keryo consisted solely of lands which had honke shiki (the right that the head family had) or controlling shomu (shoen administration) as honjo (the principal, which was a chief tenant and almost always a religious institution), and there was no example of controlling kakyu shoshiki (a low class officer governing a shoen estate) of the other shoen including the imperial estate.
家領は全て本家職を有しているか、本所として荘務を掌握している所領のみで成立しており、皇室領も含めた他の荘園の下級所職を知行している例はなかった。