The Kyo-yashiki residences played a role in purchasing high-level artifacts of each domain, collecting the knowledge/information on ceremonies and rites, promoting the sale of the products of their own domains and financial dealings like borrowing from merchants, and so on which were close to the role of the Kurayashiki (Warehouse-residence) in Osaka.
このため、各藩の高度な工芸品などの調達や儀式典礼に関する知識・情報の収集、自藩の産物の売り込みや商人からの借財などの金融取引など、大坂の蔵屋敷に近い役割を果たしていた。