Although the stipend for a Kotaiyoriai was less than ten thousand koku (crop yields), they were treated as "taishin hatamoto" (hatamoto with high rank and high yields) and permitted to practice Sankinkotai like daimyo feudal lords.
禄高が1万石以下でありながら“大身旗本”として大名と同様に参勤交代することを許されていた。