The procession was regarded the same as sekkanke (the families of regents and chief advisors to the Imperial Family) and monzeki (temples whose head priest is a member of the Imperial family), and even the lords of Tokugawa gosanke (three privileged branches of the Tokugawa family) had to get off their palanquin, their vassals dismount from their horses, to make way for the ochatsubo dochu procession.
摂関家や門跡並で、御三家の行列であっても、駕籠から降りて、馬上の家臣はおりて、道を譲らねばならなかった。