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At its peak, the Ôtomo clan claimed some 230 vassal families, including sixty ''dômonshû'' families (lit. "people within the same gates") who bore kin relations with the Ôtomo, 37 ''kunishû'' families (lit. "people of the land") who were powerholders in Bungo province before the Ôtomo's arrival, and 150 ''shinshû'' families (lit. "new people") who joined the Ôtomo at some point later.<ref>Haruko Nawata Ward, Women Religious Leaders in Japan's Christian Century, Ashgate (2009), 123.</ref>
At its peak, the Ôtomo clan claimed some 230 vassal families, including sixty ''dômonshû'' families (lit. "people within the same gates") who bore kin relations with the Ôtomo, 37 ''kunishû'' families (lit. "people of the land") who were powerholders in Bungo province before the Ôtomo's arrival, and 150 ''shinshû'' families (lit. "new people") who joined the Ôtomo at some point later.<ref>Haruko Nawata Ward, Women Religious Leaders in Japan's Christian Century, Ashgate (2009), 123.</ref>
Following the decline of the clan under Sôrin's heir [[Otomo Yoshimune|Ôtomo Yoshimune]], the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] demoted the Ôtomo from full ''daimyô'' status to being a ''[[koke|kôke]]'' family, hereditary masters of ceremonies within the shogunate. Meanwhile, a major branch of the family split off and took the name [[Matsuno clan|Matsuno]], becoming vassals of the [[Hosokawa clan]] of [[Kumamoto han|Kumamoto]].<ref>Nawata Ward, 192.</ref>
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