These official ranks in the military government were used to differentiate the status of families, such as by determining the seating order in shikoseki (anteroom seats for feudal lords and direct retainer of the shogun at the Edo-jo castle), and by securing some seats for daimyo at the forth order or above, etc.
これらの武家官位について、伺候席席次を官位の先任順としたり、一部の伺候席を四品以上に昇進する大名家一覧以上の席とするなどして、格差をつける。