Of the Miyoshi clan that was dominant in Kyoto in the Sengoku Period (Period of Warring States), a family in the lineage of Kasho MIYOSHI, which had been picked by Ieyasu TOKUGAWA, owned the territories of Tango no sho manor, Soejimo County, Yamato Province (present Tangonosho-cho, Yamato-Koriyama City) and Morimedo, Yamabe County (present Morimedo-cho, Tenri City).
戦国期に京で権勢を誇った三好氏のうち、徳川家康に取り立てられた三好可正の系統は大和国の添下郡丹後庄（現・大和郡山市丹後庄町）及び山辺郡守目堂（現・天理市守目堂町）を所領として有した家である。