For example, in the Daimyo-gyoretsu procession (feudal lord's costumed procession) in the Sankinkotai system (a system under which feudal lords in the Edo period were required to spend every other year in residence in Edo), he was allowed to pass sekisho (checking stations) with his long sword being held up or without getting off his palanquin, and he waited in the willow room (together with other daimyo ranked at Shii (the fourth rank) or lower).
大名行列を組んでの参勤交代、その際の長刀を掲げたままでの、または駕籠に乗ったままでの関所通過の許可、江戸城内では柳の間詰め（四位以下の大名並）だった。