Also there appeared other cases in which offspring succeeded government posts which their ancestors had been appointed to, and thus a new custom of jikan, in which samurai used a government post at his own initiative without permission from the Imperial Court, became established.
また、先祖が補任された官職を子孫が継承するケースも現れるなど、朝廷の関知しない、武士が自ら官名を名乗る自官という慣習が定着していった。