As they were limited to the family of kanrei (deputy to the shogun) and the influential shugo daimyo, became a valuable social status, also reflected in the office organization inside the bakufu, were given the order of precedence after the kanrei.
管領の一族や有力守護大名に限定されていたため、一種の社会的身分としての価値が生じて幕府内の職制にも反映されて管領に次ぐ席次を与えられるようになった。