Tandai

The term is a Kamakura and Muromachi period colloquialism for any very important governmental, judiciary or military post in a determinate area. During the Kamakura shogunate, examples of "tandai" in the east of the country were the "shikken" and the "rensho", in the west of the country and in Kyūshū the "Rokuhara tandai" and the "Chinzei bugyō", also called "Chinzei tandai". 
Examples during the Muromachi period were the "Chinzei bugyō", also called "Kyūshū tandai", Ōshū province's "Ōshū tandai" and Dewa province's "Ushū tandai".