Even when samurai governed during the Kamakura and Muromachi periods, the bakufu was unable to place a provincial constable in Yamato Province because it had enormous power and armed priests.
鎌倉時代・室町時代の武士の時代になっても僧兵等を擁し強大な力を持っていたため、幕府は大和国に守護を置けなかった。