The main branch of the Ogasawara family provided the Soke (grand master), in charge of "kyuho" and Ogasawara-ryu manners for generations, but the 17th generation of the family, Nagatoki OGASAWARA and his son Sadayoshi OGASAWARA handed over Doto to their cousin, Tsunenaga from Akazawa, Izu, to prevent the horseback archery tradition from dying out in the turbulent Sengoku period.
小笠原家は代々、総領家（本家）が糾法および小笠原流礼法全般をとりしきり「宗家」となっていたが、十七代の小笠原長時とその子貞慶は、戦乱の戦国時代に弓馬礼法の伝統を絶やさないため、従兄弟筋にあたる伊豆赤沢の経長に宗家の道統を継承。