In contrast to the many gokenin (samurai retainers) in the Kanto region who achieved the status through Yoritomo's Shoryo Ando (act providing authorization of land ownership and guaranteeing feudal tenure), it was honjo (domain owning governors) or kokushi (provincial governors), and lords of manors, who had secure tenure of their territories and authority over the Hontaku Ando (residential tenure) retainers
関東の御家人の多くが頼朝の所領安堵を通じて御家人となっていたのに対し、本宅安堵の御家人に所領安堵する権限を有していたのは荘園領主たる本所や国司だった。