The Ashikaga Shogunate family appointed the entire Ashikaga clan and its branch families as the military governor or the close retainer of the Muromachi bakufu, treating them as Goikka-shu (the Ashikaga family groups).
足利将軍家は足利氏の一門・庶家を御一家衆として室町幕府の守護・側近とした。