The politics by Emperor Uda (called Kanpyo no chi - Glorious rule in Kanpyo era) strongly aspired to return to the Ritsuryo system (a system of centralized government based upon the ritsuryo code) which controlled influential families (dominant nobilities, temples and shrines) and protected peasant folks, and Tokihira also followed this policy, for example, by promulgating a law to enforce handen (the allotted farmland) in 902 during his administration.
宇多天皇の政治（寛平の治と呼ばれる）は、権門（有力貴族・寺社）を抑制し、小農民を保護するという律令制への回帰を強く志向していたが、時平もこの方針を受け継ぎ、例えば時平執政期の902年（延喜2年）には班田を励行する法令が発布されている。