While the Edo bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) did not want Daimyo of domains to contact the Imperial court, it maintained the Nijo-jodai (the keeper of Nijo-jo Castle)/the Nijo zaiban (resident officer of Bakufu) and the Kyoto shoshidai (the Bakufu military governor stationed in Kyoto)/the Kyoto gundai (rural intendants) in Kyoto which was the center base of the Edo bakufu for controlling the Saigoku (western part of Japan (esp. Kyushu, but ranging as far east as Kinki)), and there were many of Kyo-yashiki residences in Kyoto.
江戸幕府は諸大名が朝廷と接触することを望まなかったが、その一方で二条城代・二条在番や京都所司代・京都ｃが設置され、江戸幕府の西国支配の中心地であった京都には多くの京屋敷が置かれていた。