It was a property of Oishi's distant relatives, the Konoe family, who was a court noble as well as Regent, and the property was managed by Toshimoto SHINDO (who worked as the Konoe family's Shodaibu) who was from the same clan as a comrade of Kuranosuke's relative Nagayuki SHINDO.
ここは公家であり、大石と遠縁にあたる摂関近衛家の領地で、内蔵助親戚の同志進藤俊式の一族進藤長之（近衛家諸大夫）がこの土地を管理していた。