However, if there was no person appointed to succeed the current land steward of an important local territory, such as Izumi-gun, Shibushi town and Ijuin town, a land steward of other territory was appointed to govern the territory in order to avoid making it a vacant territory.
但し、出水郡や志布志町、伊集院町といった重要な郷に関しては明所とせずに他の郷の地頭が兼任した。