After the Azuchi-Momoyama Period in particular, as Nobunaga ODA forced his vassals of his clan to live in his castle town without exception, which resulted in a rapid increase in demesnes without their lords residing there, thus it became a practice to let daikan administer their demesnes including new chigyo-chi(territory).
特に安土桃山時代以降は織田信長が自身の家中において家臣を城下に居住させることを徹底し、領主不在の領地が急激に増えたこともあり、家臣の新知の知行地もまとめて代官に管理させるようにした。