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After the extinction of the Minamoto family, the Shogun who succeeded one after another had no hereditary nor personal relations with those djito, and could claim no more than the official prestige of the Shogun allowed them to do. As to the Hojo family, though the real power of the Shogunate was in its hands, originally it was no higher in rank than the djito, and could not, in its own name, command obedience from any of the Shogun's retainers. There is some similarity between the organisation... of the time of the Kam- akura Shogunate in this second phase and the "Kreis" institution of the German empire in the fifteenth century, which was initiated with the ob- ject of political concentration by Maximilian I. , whose real power lay in his being a duke of Aus- tria, and not Emperor of Germany. However 214 History of Japan admirable as an organisation, such a political sta- tus was undoubtedly untenable. No wonder that the military regime of Kamakura gradually col- lapsed. The relation of shugo and djito in the time of the Ashikaga was quite of a different sort from that in the former Shogunate.
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