Under this system, influential farmers, (Tato: farm managers who lease public fields from provincial lords and produce agricultural products; and Myoshu: owners of rice fields) to whom the management of land and control of people was transmitted from the government, became powerful.
王朝国家体制の下では、国家から土地経営や人民支配の権限を委譲された有力百姓（田堵・名主）層の成長が見られた。