During the last days of the Edo period, the 12th head Masakazu had a dispute over succession with his brother-in-law, Seifu (正孚), and together with the decline of Nohgaku after the Meiji Restoration, it became one of the causes of the decline of the authority of the head family of the school, but the tradition of the school was preserved by senior pupils, Shuzaburo IKOMA, Kingo MISU (general director of entertainment for a while) and others.
幕末期には十二世正員の代に義兄の正孚とのあいだで宗家継承の争いがおこり、維新後の能楽衰退と相まって宗家の権威が衰える一因となったが、高弟生駒秀三郎、三須錦吾（一時芸事総取締）らによって流儀の伝統は守られた。