But in the process he became kin of the Seki clan of the Seiwa-Genji (Minamoto clan) and was ultimately included in the ranks of vassals, and during the Edo period when the Seki clan became a branch family was given a portion of the estate, took an adopted son, and they became an ordinary family in the Mori family.
しかし、その過程で清和源氏の関氏と代々縁戚となり、遂には家臣の列に加え、江戸時代には関氏を分家として遇して支藩を分知し、養子を入れて森家の庶族となした。