Guardian's Office - Shugosho

Japanese: 守護所 - しゅごしょ

Locations of Shugokan from the Kamakura to Muromachi periods. In the Kamakura period, they were sometimes located in the same place as the provincial capital (such as Aki Province), but most were located in separate locations and were frequently moved as the Shugo changed. After the Nanboku-cho period, Shugo's power expanded as they absorbed the kokuga system, and as Shugo became hereditary and the provinces were converted into fiefdoms (shugo daimyo), Shugosho were moved to the provincial capital, such as in Suruga Fuchu (present-day Shizuoka City) of the Imagawa clan, or Shugosho replaced the provincial capital, becoming the political and economic center of a province, such as in Suo-Yamaguchi of the Ouchi clan. The residences and lodgings of vassals, temples and shrines, and merchants and industrialists also gathered around the Shugo residences, forming cities known as Shugocho.
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Japanese:

鎌倉〜室町時代の守護館の所在地。鎌倉時代には国府と同一地に置かれる場合もあったが（安芸国など），多くは別所に設置され，守護の交替に合わせて頻繁に移動した。南北朝時代以降，国衙機構を吸収して守護権力が拡大し，守護の世襲化，管国の領国化が進むと（守護大名），今川氏の駿河府中（現静岡市）のように国府域に守護所を移したり，また大内氏の周防山口のように守護所が国府に替わり一国の政治・経済の中心地となった。守護居館の周辺には家臣の居宅や宿所，寺社などが集中，商工業者も集住して守護町と呼ばれるような都市も形成された。
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