Most of the staff of the shogunate were self-appointed as chief officials, either upon request or hired privately. Most of the staff have no fixed positions, no ranks, and no organizational structure.

Most of the staff of the shogunate were self-appointed as chief officials, either upon request or hired privately. Most of the staff have no fixed positions, no ranks, and no organizational structure. They are different from ordinary assistant officials and subordinate officials. However, most of the staff were close associates of the shogunate. They were a special class attached to the feudal ruling class. ② Staff played a special role in feudal rule, and the shogunate mechanism often had the important feature of weakening or replacing the formal official system. Every time a regime changes, the new monarch often transforms his staff into the administrative center of the new dynasty, and then trains a new staff to weaken or replace the new official system. The strange phenomena in the feudal official system such as internal and external differences, inconsistency between name and reality, and separation of powers are all related to the shogunate system. ③The shogunate was mostly occupied by local military and political officials. The development of the shogunate system, in a certain sense, was the competition between local forces and the central government. The rise and fall of the shogunate system is often a barometer of the growth and decline of central and local power. ④The shogunate system is an important supplement to the feudal official system. The system of separation and mutual restraint of decision-making, administration, and supervision in the feudal official system cannot completely resolve the conflicts within the ruling class and maintain the balance of power. The special mechanism of the shogunate performed special functions and achieved the purpose of safeguarding special interests. The shogunate system was the product of the centralized system of feudal absolutism. [Edit this paragraph] Japan's shogunate system

A military centralized political system in Japan's feudal era. Under this system, the power of rule was vested in the feudal samurai leader "shogun", and the emperor was in name only. Because the general's residence is called the "shogunate", it is called the "shogunate system". Starting in 1192, it went through the Kamakura shogunate, Muromachi shogunate, and Edo shogunate, and ended before the Meiji Restoration in 1868.