Performers promoted to samurai were, especially in and after the Jokyo era, conferred the newly-created post of rokaban (a kind of officer in Edo-jo Castle) and officially retired from the stage but were made to perform Noh plays privately held by Tsunayoshi in the castle.
士分に取り立てられた役者は、特に貞享以後はこのために新設された廊下番のポストにつけられて表向き能役者を廃業し、綱吉が城中で私的に催す能に出演させられた。