"Ryuei hikan" (a series of books giving an account of political annual events, custom, bylaw, formality, historical events, precedent and ritual complied in the mid-eighteenth century) divided the TOKUGAWA fudai into three groups of the Anjo fudai (consisting of seven families), the Okazaki fudai (consisting of sixteen families) and the Suruga fudai, and later, into four groups with an additional family.
『柳営秘鑑』では、安祥譜代（7家）、岡崎譜代（16家）、駿河譜代の3区別、そのほか後世追加された家の4種類に分別している。