Even Musashi MIYAMOTO, who earned highest salary apart from daimyo (Japanese feudal lord) in Yagyu Domain, was only 700 koku (194.6 cubic meters) at Hosokawa clan in his later years, which is an equal treatment of a chief retainer in a shohan (domain where crop yields are small).
大名出身の柳生藩以外でもっとも高禄であった宮本武蔵でさえ、晩年、細川氏において、客分700石という小藩の家老程度の待遇であった。