Tsuchida Family served this hereditarypost from the time of FUJIWARA no Yoritsune, the 4th Shogun of the Kamakura bakufu, and had been inservicealso of the Ashikaga Shogun family, Nobunaga ODA and Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI.
For example, MINAMOTO no Yoritomo called his project 'Beginning of aunifiedcountry (tenka no shoshi),' however, his governing areas cannot be compared with the sixtyorso provinces that Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI and Ieyasu TOKUGAWA governed.