Often discussed in recent years, the term gun-teki sekai refers to the social conditions of a district. In ancient Japanese local communities, there existed complex webs of historical rule and intertwined relationships between local clans that date back to before the establishment of the Ritsuryō system. Gun-teki sekai is a term that refers to the reality of the control of the provincial and district systems, in which multiple powerful clans served as gunji , district governors under the Ritsuryō system. Each gunji organized smaller clans below them to carry out administrative duties based on such relationships. Recent research is beginning to reveal the multipolar structure of the gun-teki sekai .
　In this study, the author examines the gun-teki sekai through an analysis of the Asuwa district in Echizen province, which is rich in historical materials. As a result, the following four points became clear. First, it is highly likely that the powerful clans who served as district governors in the mid-Nara period were traditional clans with roots in the eastern part of the district. Second, the powerful clans who served as district deputy governors may have been an emerging power. Third, from an archaeological perspective, the eastern part of the district is the traditional area, while the dominance of the western part of the district developed after the establishment of the Ritsuryō system. Fourth, in terms of clan distribution, the clans who served as district governors were distributed over the widest area, followed by those who served as district deputy governors.