During the Meiji Restoration, head priest, former prince Shonin Hosshinno left the priesthood, reestablished the Nashimoto-no-miya Imperial family and sent all of the Buddhist statues and artifacts in Tera-machi Hirokoji to the administrative office in Ohara.
明治維新の際、当時の門跡であった昌仁法親王は還俗（げんぞく、仏門を離れる）して新たに梨本宮家を起こし、寺町広小路にあった仏像、仏具類は大原の政所に送られた。