If a person was provided with a myojitaito right, he was permitted to officially use a family name that originated in a territorial name, indicating that the family belonged to the territorial lord class (this means using an original name, not a privately given name), and was also permitted to wear two Japanese swords, a uchigatana (a sword worn inside the "obi " belt) (a long sword) and a wakizashi (a short sword).
家名の中でも特に知行の名前に由来し領主階級であることを示す名字を公称し（ということは苗字私称とは異なり本姓を有し）、打刀（大刀）と脇差（小刀）の2本の日本刀を腰に帯びること。