Nanushi hyakusho also had myoshu-shiki, which were the rights to dominate local lower-class people, such as hyakusho who owned little plow land, tenant farmers, and moto (new comers in a community), and the myoshu-shiki was transferred by heredity.
名主百姓はさらに小百姓、小作人、間人(もうと）といった領内下層民に対する支配権である名主職を有し、これを世襲した。