These documents were issued to 219 families in total, excluding gosanke (御三家: three privileged branches of the Tokugawa family), the gosanke-equivalent Kofu Tokugawa and Tatebayashi Tokugawa families, and the Sendai Date clan for whom granting of the documents was put off to a later date because they did not agree to the way their two branch domains, Uwajima and Iyo Yoshida, were treated.
なお、御三家とこれに準じる甲府徳川家及び館林徳川家、支藩の宇和島藩・伊予吉田藩の扱いについてまとまらなかったために後日交付となった仙台藩伊達氏を除いた219家に交付された。