Hokoshu was entrusted to the management of local goryosho (shogunate's estate) and was also given the rights to prevent Shugo (provincial constable) from entering their own lands and to collect tansen (a kind of provisional tax in medieval Japan).
地方の御料所（将軍直轄領）の管理を任されており、所領地の守護不入や段銭（田畑に賦課される税）の徴収などの特権を与えられていた。