However, this "Ganka meibutsuki" graded tea utensils in order of the family lineage of the owners, such as the three privileged branches of the Tokugawa, while prices of tea utensils were not determined according to their superiority in their appearance but to the rank of the Daimyo family (feudal lords family) which owned the utensils.
しかしこの『玩貨名物記』は道具を御三家を筆頭とした家柄によって序列しており、道具の価値も姿形の優秀さではなく、所持する大名家の格によって決定されるようになった。