A branch office of a toji group was established in a region where there were many breweries, and when a toji post of a brewery became vacant, this office functioned as a coordinator or an agency to assign the next toji from the same school to that post immediately, so that the brewery was able to keep the same brewing method and the same sake taste.
酒蔵が多い地方には、杜氏集団の出先機関のようなものを設置し、杜氏の空きのポストが出ると、すぐに同じ流派から次の杜氏が入って、その蔵の酒造りが途絶えないように、そして、その蔵の味が変わらないように、斡旋や仲介をほどこした。