Under peacetime conditions, they owned territory as nanushi (village headman), and had direct subordinates that were known as `Mata hikan' (low-level bureaucrat) (the term that was described by the Takeda clan, which referred to the hikan (low-level bureaucrat) under hikan (low-level bureaucrat) in the region where he lived or in his territory.
平時には名主として領地を有し、居住する地域や領地の中に「又被官（武田氏から見た表現。被官の被官と言う意味）」と記される直属の部下を持つ。