For this reason, members of the Kira and Imagawa clans did not become kanrei (shogunal deputy) or Samurai-dokoro (the Board of Retainers) (these positions were 'jobs of vassals' and the members of both the clans with the right of succession to the head family of Ashikaga had too high social status to be assigned to kanrei and so on).
吉良家と今川家から管領や侍所が1人も出ていないのはこのためである（これらの役職は「家臣の仕事」であり、足利宗家の継承権を持つ両家の者は管領などに任じられる身分ではなかった）。