Primarily, however, the treatment of Shizoku (the family of samurai descendants) was applied to most families of Jigeke, including the Hirata family who served as a secretary at the Bureau of Archivists and ranked next to the Oshikoji family and the Mibu family in Jigeke.
だが、押小路家・壬生家の両家に次ぐ蔵人所出納の平田家以下、ほとんどの地下家は原則として士族として扱われた。