In the Muromachi and Edo bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun), Seii taishogun (literally, "great general who subdues the barbarians") concurrently took the post of Meryo gogen ranked higher than it.
室町幕府・江戸幕府では征夷大将軍がその上に立つ馬寮御監を兼務した。