Instead of a Nanushi of the town, Yamori (a manger who works for a homeowner or a landowner) who was to become a deputy of the homeowner, emerged.
町の名主に代わり、家持の代理人=家守(やもり)の代表である。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス
a homeowner who acts as a contractor and tries to do major improvement projects on weekends (often without understanding the scope of the work to be done)
契約者として務め、週末(しばしば、行われる仕事の範囲を理解することなく)に主要な改善プロジェクトをしようとする住宅所有者 - 日本語WordNet
However, most people of the homeowner class were absent from the town at an early stage and finally Nanushi of a town had disappeared at the end of the seventeenth century in Edo.
しかし、江戸では家持層が早くから不在となる場合が多く、17世紀末には町の名主は姿を消してしまう。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス