Kengyo began to have considerable power and authority with a substantially high rank, and when someone became a Soroku Kengyo (chief kengyo) who lead the Todo-za, they were given the level of authority and prestige comparable to a daimyo with a stipend of 150 thousand koku (a unit of a crop yield - one rice koku is 180.39 liters; one lumber koku is 0.278 cubic meters).
検校の権限は大きなものとなり、社会的にもかなり地位が高く、当道の統率者である惣録検校になると十五万石程度の大名と同等の権威と格式を持っていた。