After the Konden Einen Shizai Law (a law allowing farmers to permanently own reclaimed fields) was enacted, temples and shrines, as well as nobles in the capital began reclaiming fields on a large scale with active support from the Kokuga (provincial government offices) under the ritsuryo code.
墾田永年私財法が制定されると中央の寺社・貴族は、律令国家・国衙の積極的な援助のもとに大規模な開墾を展開する。