In modern times, the inheritance of the post by the Fujinami family was abolished as the hereditary system of shake (a family of Shinto priests serving a shrine on a hereditary basis) was repealed and the peerage was appointed to Jingu Saishu.
近代以降、社家の世襲が廃止されると、藤波家の世襲は廃され、華族をもって神宮祭主に任じた。