The stipend system according to the ritsuryo law, however, collapsed at an early stage, and the nobles attempted to develop their own infrastructures, involving 'guji' (chief priests of shinto shrines).
だが、その体制は早い時期に崩壊し、貴族たちは官司をも巻き込んで彼らによる独自の生活基盤形成を図ることになる。