An exception was the Kakizaki clan, which announced themselves as the descendants of the Wakasa Takeda clan (in reality, from a merchant?), and it unified small and middle-sized gozoku in the area along the Tsugaru Straits.
例外は若狭武田氏末裔を名乗る（実際は商人出身か？）蠣崎氏で、津軽海峡沿いの中小豪族を統一した。