In this context, the bakufu granted hereditary stipends not just to the heirs but to other sons of the nobility (who would otherwise have become priests to reduce the burden on their families) and permitted these other sons to establish new families, thereby placating the nobility while at the same time avoiding a decline in the number of court nobles and retaining the minimum number of people required for the operation of the Imperial Court.
そこで本来ならば口減らしのために出家させるのが通例だった公家の嫡男以外の男子に家禄を授けて新しい家を興させ、こうした公家の不満をそらす一方で公家の減少を防いで朝廷運用に必要な最低限の人員を確保しようとする意図があった。