The number of the staff in the procession, such as chadogashira (a head of tea ceremony for the Tokugawa Shogunate family) or chadoshu (tea server) and security officials to guard the tea jar, had swollen up to more than 1000 people until Yoshimune TOKUGAWA issued new laws regulating expenditures.
茶道頭や茶道衆（茶坊主）のほか茶壷の警備の役人など、徳川吉宗の倹約令が出るまで膨れ上がり、多い時には1000人を超える大行列となった。