The shogun family was a houshold system where the head of samurai, who was designated as seii taishogun (literally: "great general who subdues the barbarians") or for the head of palace guards, generated, in the medieval times in Japan, imitating the houshold system of kuge (the court noble) when establishing his government.
将軍家（しょうぐんけ）とは、日本の中世において、征夷大将軍または近衛大将に叙任された武家の棟梁が、政権を樹立する際に公家の家政制度に倣って創始したものである。