In the Satsuma Domain, land was divided into two categories - i.e. private land owned by the retainers of the domain and land directly managed by the lord of the domain - and land stewards were allocated to the latter category of land.
薩摩藩では薩摩藩家臣の領地である私領と藩主直轄地に分かれるが、地頭は直轄地の方に配属された。