If we trace the family lineage back from MINAMOTO no Tsunemoto (the founder of the Minamoto clan) to MINAMOTO no Mitsunaka, MINAMOTO no Yorinobu, MINAMOTO no Yoriyoshi, and the renowned MINAMOTO no Yoshiie, we can see that these five generations of the Ashikaga Shogunate family were appointed Chinju-fu shogun (Commander-in-Chief of the Defense of the North), which was an honorable post for a samurai family.
その系譜をたどれば源氏の祖　源経基以来、源満仲、源頼信、源頼義そして名高き源義家に至るまで五代にわたり武家の栄誉である鎮守府将軍に任ぜられた。