The Kuchiki clan (kotaiyoriai-omoteoreishu) in Kuchiki, Takashima County (present Kuchikinojiri, Takashima City, Shiga Prefecture), from where the head family linage of the Kuchiki family in Fukuchiyama clan, was a distinguished family on which the Ashikaga shogun family often counted in emergencies.
高島郡朽木（現・滋賀県高島市朽木野尻）の朽木氏（交代寄合表御礼衆）は福知山藩朽木家の本家筋で、足利将軍家が有事の際にしばしば頼った名家である。