Some of the reasons why the Kyo-yashiki residences were maintained despite such situations were the facts that Kyoto was a representative production district of Japan for artifacts and also the center of learning/culture even in the particular period when the political power of the Imperial court fell down.
それでも京屋敷が置かれた背景には朝廷の政治的権威が失墜したこの時代にあっても京都は日本を代表する工芸品の生産地であり、学問・文化の中心都市でもあった。