Since then, the Fujiwara and Minamoto clans who were maternal relatives of the Tachibana clan were granted this title under imperial decree given to uji no in, based on recommendation by the Tachibana clan.
以来、橘氏の外戚にある藤原氏や源氏の公卿が橘氏の推挙に基づき、天皇の宣旨を氏院に賜り、是定となった。