Junii was such a high rank for court nobles that members of the Shogun family had not received it even among samurai during the Kamakura period through to the Muromachi period, except for the midaidokoro, the legal wife of the Shogun, being granted the rank the first since Masako HOJO
従二位は公卿の位階としても高位であり、武士の間では鎌倉時代から室町時代にかけては、北条政子以来、将軍の正室である御台所に与えられることはあっても、将軍の一門ですら叙せられることはなかった。