Since the early-modern times, people and fields blessed with the relationship and philosophy of Family and Michi were expanded more and it was developed to the Iemoto system (a system of licensing inherited by specific families) and philosophies of arts and inherited.
近世以後、家と道の関係・理念は近世以後はこれを享受する層と分野が更に拡大され、家元制度と芸道理念へと発展・継承することとなる。