Female servants from a kuge (court noble) family, accompanying a female who was from a kuge family and married to shogun, were appointed to the Joro-otoshiyori post, the highest post for female servants in O-oku.
公家（公卿）より御台所が降嫁する際に同伴してくる公家出身の女官たちは、大奥女中最高位の上臈御年寄の役に就いた。