Resembling the bakufu, in many han (domains), as their vassals' appanage generally changed from chigyo (grant) to kuramai (payment by rice from warehouses), gundai (intendant of a region or administrator of a town) and daikan who were appointed by their han came to administer vassals' territories together.
諸藩でも、家臣の知行地の蔵米化が進み、郡代、代官がまとめて管理するようになった。