The example of the Kamata clan was at the early stage, but the Kamata clan itself was a branch family of the Kagoshima clan branch family that deviated from the Hitachi Daijo clan, and this could be interpreted that its estate had a few, but four villages.
烟田氏の例は、確かに時期は早いが、烟田氏自体が、常陸大掾氏からの分流である鹿島氏の庶流であり、その所領は僅かに４ヶ村であったことにも見てとれる。