In the early Muromachi period, the bakufu was controlled by both of Shogun Takauji and Tadayoshi, his younger brother, but since the head of Samuraidokoro was KO no Moroyasu, the elder brother of KO no Moronao who was the steward of the Ashikaga family, it is considered that Samuraidokoro was an organization controlled directly by the shogun.
初期の室町幕府は将軍尊氏と実弟直義の2頭体制であったが、侍所頭人は足利家執事の高師直の兄にあたる高師泰であることから、侍所は将軍直轄機関であったと考えられている。