In the late modern times, when the power of the feudal lords waned, a lord of the shogunate system tried to deny the Soudaikinou (a function of village residents' representative) function of a Shoya and Nanushi.
近世後期に至り領主権力が弱体化すると、幕藩領主は庄屋・名主の惣代機能を否定しようと試みた。