In many of such clans, furthermore, they unanimously worked to enhance relations between toji groups and sake brewing districts by arranging places to work during the agricultural off-season in some advanced sake-brewing regions through kurayashiki (a warehouse and sales office for rice and other local products maintained by daimyo in the Edo period) when those who had great brewing skills appeared.
さらに、領民のあいだから醸造技能に優れた者が輩出すると、蔵屋敷などを通して先進地域への出稼ぎ先を斡旋したりと、藩をあげて杜氏集団と蔵元地域とのつながりを強化しようとしたところも多い。