For example, Kanpaku (Chancellor) Norifusa ICHIJO went down to his family's territory, Hatanosho district in Tosa Province (present-day Shimanto City, Kochi Prefecture), and later his descendants became Sengoku daimyo (Japanese territorial lord in the Sengoku period) as Tosa Ichijo clan.
そのなかには、関白一条教房が家領であった土佐国幡多荘（現在の高知県四万十市）に下向して、子孫が土佐一条氏として戦国大名化したという例もある。