The shop owners and the workmen were strongly favored among the town communities; however, the unwritten law had less binding, implying that people took pride in their own workers with the prefix 'machi' in the occupational titles, such as machitobi, machidaiku, and machihikeshi.
しかし町の中でも商店や職人を積極的に贔屓にするが、不文律の拘束は弱く、町鳶、町大工、町火消しなどの「町」を冠する職方には我々の町の、という誇りをこめたニュアンスがある。