However, in the middle of the Edo period, financial spending of domains expanded because there were more formal and special expenses required (for example, receptions of imperial messengers and envoys from Korea, or attendance on the shogun's visit to Nikko to recognize their great ancestor), and their financial difficulty was accelerated because of the declining of rice price in and after 1718.
だが、江戸時代中期に入ると形状的・臨時的（例勅使・朝鮮通信使の接待や征夷大将軍の日光社参参詣の供奉など）の両面における財政支出の拡大に加えて享保3年（1718年）以後の米価の低落傾向によって財政難に拍車がかかり、恒常的な借り入れ関係が生じ、更に領内の凶作によって蔵屋敷への年貢米（蔵米）や特産品（蔵物）搬入が減少するなどで売却代金によって返済しきれなくなる事態も生じた。