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The third of the Bakufu offices was the Monju-dokoro, or "place for recording judicial inquiries;" in other words, a high court of justice and State legislature. Suits at law were heard there and were either decided finally or transferred to other offices for approval. This office was established in 1184. The first occupant of the post was Miyoshi Yasunobu.
For the rest, the Muromachi Bakufu was organized on practically the same lines as its Kamakura prototype. There was a Man-dokoro, a Monju-dokoro, and a Samurai-dokoro, and the staff of these offices was taken originally, as far as possible, from the families of men who had distinguished themselves as legislators and administrators at Kamakura.
For, whereas the latter's authority in Kyoto had hitherto been largely nominal, it now became a supreme reality. They presided over administrative machinery at the two Rokuhara in the northern and southern suburbs of the city organized exactly on the lines of the Kamakura polity; namely, a Samurai-dokoro, a Man-dokoro, and a Monju-dokoro.
The Samurai-dokoro and the Monju-dokoro remained unchanged, but the political administration passed from the Monju-dokoro to the Hyojoshu, and the betto of the former became in effect the finance minister of the shogun. Commencing with Yasutoki , down to the close of the thirteenth century, Japan was admirably ruled by a succession of Hojo regents.
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