It goes without saying that the 'Bando Kingdom' (the kingdom of an old Kanto region) was not required to follow the customs of the Imperial Court, so a Hitachi no kami and a Kazusa no kami should have been appointed, but, for some inexplicable reason, a suke was assigned to these provinces instead.
当然ながら「坂東王国」であるなら朝廷の慣習を踏襲する必要は全く無く、常陸守や上総守を任命すべきであるが、何故か介を任命している。