At the end of the Edo period, this custom of dismounting a horse or getting down from a palanquin had once died out, but after the Meiji Restoration, the same system resumed in leap April, 1868, and lasted until 1879, going through some changes, at Kyujo (imperial palaces), Rikyu (imperial villas), various ministries and some temples and shrines.
幕末、下馬、下乗の廃れたが、明治維新後、明治元年閏4月の下乗下馬の制から始まり、明治12年までに変遷はあるが、宮城、離宮、諸官省、社寺などに一定の制があった。