In the journals of Fujiwara no Kanezane (), an official of the Kamakura shogunate whose journals became the "Gyokuyō" (), he describes the founding of the Shogunate by Minamoto no Yoritomo as "beginning "tianxia"". His usage of "tianxia" is entirely "Ritsuryō" in nature, and his phrase "beginning "tianxia"" refers to the establishment of a new nation, jurisprudence, and system of order. However, even if Yoritomo had the intention to become a monarch-level ruler, Japan's "tianxia" concept had not achieved the Chinese level of an Emperor who governed feudal kingdoms and was entrusted with the ordering of the world by Heaven. In the journals of Gidō Shūshin (), Gidō records a discussion he had with Ashikaga Yoshimitsu where the Shōgun repeatedly referred to his dominion as ""tianxia"". In the Muromachi period, people gradually began regarding the Shōgun as the representative of Heaven.