The clan initially dispatched shugodai, but the seventh head Nobutoki TAKEDA constructed the Sato Kanayama-jo Castle in Aki Province to prepare for Genko (Mongol invasion attempts against Japan) and started to rule the territory in earnest.
任命当初は守護代を派遣していたが、後に7代武田信時の時代に元寇に備えて安芸国に佐東銀山城を築き本格的な領土支配に乗り出すようになった。