A revolution took place from the time of the Kamakura shogunate, which existed with the Tennō's court, to the Tokugawa, when the samurai became the unchallenged rulers in what historian Edwin O. Reischauer called a "centralized feudal" form of shogunate.
Një revolucion u zhvillua prej kohës së shogunatit Kamakura e cila ekzistoi me gjykatën e Tenno-s te Tokugawa, kur samurai u bënë sundimtar të pasfiduar ashtu siq e quajti historiani Edwin O. Reischaurer “feudale të centralizuar“.