At Edo Castle, daimyo waited in rooms assigned by the standing of their houses. The Ii family, which could provide the great elder, waited in the Tamari no ma. Lords of houses related to the Tokugawa and former senior councillors could also be ordered there.
Old hereditary vassal houses, the korai fudai, had their seats in the Teikan no ma. Other hereditary vassals waited in the Kari no ma and on the veranda of the Kiku no ma.