The relationship among family in those days was very flexible and it was commonly seen that each samurai of the same family submitted a name list to each different master.
当時の一家をなすもの同士の結合が極めて緩やかであり、親兄弟がそれぞれ別の主人？に名簿（みょうぶ）を差し出すことはごく普通である。