Thus, in the domains in which the system had been converted into the kuramaichigyo, the samurai who had status which would have been enforced in the conventional system were honorably granted the designation of kyujin or a social status of Kakaku (family status) of kyujin.
かくして、蔵米知行制に転換した諸藩にあって、本来であれば、知行を与えられる格式を持つ武士に対して、給人という呼称や、給人という格式の家格を、栄誉的に与えたのである。