However, after the Kamakura period when the Court's power had relatively fallen, there were some cases that "Honjo" (temples, shrines, and court nobles) and samurai families, which had achieved control of the entire shoen and Koryo (an Imperial demesne), called themselves "Kubo" as the holder of the sovereign power in the fiefs.
だが、相対的な朝廷権力の低下した鎌倉時代以後には、荘園・公領の一円支配を実現させた本所（寺社・公家）や武家などが、その土地の統治権の保持者として「公方」と名乗る例も登場した。