By this period, the right to cultivate by sakunin (local cultivators) was established as saku-shiki (the right of the cultivator), and the formation of soson (a community consisting of peasants' self-governing association) began to appear.
この頃になると、直接の耕作者である作人の耕作権が作職として確立し、惣村の形成が見られ始めた。