As a result, the status of land steward established during the Kamakura period declined in importance, causing land stewards to become beings similar to local samurai just like other warriors and influential village headmen and to finally disappear from history both in name and in reality by the mid-Muromachi period.
そうなると、鎌倉期以来の地頭という地位は意義を失い、従来の地頭は、他の武士・有力名主らと同様に国人（こくじん）へと変質していき、室町中期までに地頭は名実ともに消滅した。