Additionally, when Ieyasu established the Edo bakufu, kamon daimyo (feudal lords who are relatives of the shogun, but neither sanke (three families of the Tokugawas) nor sankyo (three Tokugawa clan families who separated from the clan)) and fudai daimyo (a daimyo in hereditary vassal to the Tokugawa family) who held executive positions such as roju (member of shogun's council of elders, koke (privileged family under Tokugawa Shogunate), tozama daimyo (nonhereditary feudal lord) who were daimyo of 100,000 koku or more, were granted this court rank.
さらに、家康が江戸幕府を開くと、家門大名や譜代大名のうち老中などの重役に昇る者、高家、外様大名のうち10万石以上の国主がこの位階に除せられた。