Since Ienari kept taking the helm even after assigning the shogunate to his son, Ieyoshi TOKUGAWA, this administration was called the government of the retired Shogun (ogosho).
家斉は将軍職を子の徳川家慶に譲った後も実権を握り続けたので、この政治は「大御所政治」と呼ばれている。