The tenryo started from the directly-controlled land of the Tokugawa clan during the period of the Toyotomi clan's regime, and with the addition of territories that were confiscated through such battles as the Battle of Sekigahara and the Seizes of Osaka, it was four million goku by the end of the 17th century.
豊臣氏政権時代の徳川氏の蔵入地を基とし、関ヶ原の戦い、大坂の役などでの没収地を加えて、17世紀末には約400万石となった。