Unlike a domain, a magistrate's office of a shogunal demesne controlled a wider area and armaments were relatively weak, in fact at the time when the Tenchugumi raised an army, the magistrate's office in Gojo was occupied by just about forty roshi.
藩と違い、天領の代官所は広い地域を支配している割には軍備が手薄であり、天誅組の挙兵の際も五条代官所は40人程の浪士に占領されている。