Hisatoki AKAHASHI is an exceptional example, but the Akahashi family was a respected family next to the Tokuso family, and Hisatoki was raised to peerage in his teens after his grandfather Nagatoki HOJO, and was suddenly appointed Hyojo-shu in his twenties without a carrier as Hikitsuke-shu.
例外は赤橋久時であるが、赤橋家は久時の祖父北条長時以来、10代で叙爵し、20代で引付衆を経ることなく直に評定衆に就任するなど得宗家に次ぐ家格の高さを示していた。