However, entering the Edo period, the Kugyo (the top court officials) families from the Kamakura period were called Kyuke (old families), and those that joined Kugyo during the Azuchi-Momoyama period or later Shinke (new families), reorganized the Kuge family status.
しかしながら、江戸時代になると鎌倉時代以来の公卿を旧家、安土桃山時代以降に成立した公卿を新家とし、公家家格の再編成が行なわれた。