These duties included serving as a soldier, a jicho (manservant doing odd jobs in a nobleman's house), Kyonoborifu (serving in Kyoto) or Kamakurafu (serving in Kamakura); other duties included working in a local area as a sumiyakifu (charcoal burner), kusakarifu (mower) or working in a tsukuda (rice fields managed directly by a lord or officer of a shoen [manor]).
荘園領主のために仕丁や京上夫（京都にて奉仕する）・鎌倉夫（鎌倉にて奉仕する）、兵士役を務めたり、在地において炭焼夫や草刈夫・佃などを行った。