However, we must acknowledge that any of these recipients of yakata-go title during the Muromachi period, like Miya clan of Bingo Province, Masuda clan of Iwami Province or Chiba clan of Hizen Province, were either provisionally appointed as shugo or were in fact a dominant samurai family comparable to an influencial position of kokujin ryoshu.
しかし、備後の宮氏、石見の益田氏、肥前の千葉氏もいずれも室町時代を通じての国領主であるが、一時的に守護職に補任されたり、事実上国人領主の指導的地位を有した有力な武家であることもふまえなければならない。