In the Sengoku period, the master-servant relationship, in which the daimyo ruled as monarch, was developed with land as its base; leading to the Jigatachigyo system in the Edo period (provision of lands from a feudal government to retainers as salary).
戦国時代には、大名を君主として土地そのものを媒介とする主従関係が発達し、これが江戸時代の地方知行制のもととなっていった。