The nobles ('kuge') in need had to flee from Kyoto to distant regions where they resorted to the Sengoku daimyo (Japanese territorial lord in the Sengoku period) for help, or alternatively, some of them embarked on the direct management ('jikimu') of their own shoen manor wherein they lived.
公家たちは生活のために京都を離れて地方の戦国大名を頼ったり、自己の荘園に移住して直務（荘園の直接経営）を行ったりする例も現れるようになった。