Over 300 years and ten generations thereafter, until the shoya system was discontinued in the Meiji period, the shoya Omori family in Ogawa-mura had continued without interruption ("Hikoshichi OMORI- a remarkable person in Iyo" by Naka KIMURA).
それから10代300年の間、明治時代に庄屋制が廃止されるまで小川村の庄屋大森家はとぎれることなく続いたのである」(木村中著『伊予の奇傑大森彦七』)