In the Edo period, Tang name was still continued as the elegant name attached to the Buke-kani (official court titles for samurai), and even after the ritsuryo system came to the end both in name and in reality by the Meiji restoration, it was taken over by attaching to the System of Departments of State in the early Meiji era.
江戸時代になってからも武家官位に付随する雅称として存続し、明治維新で律令制が名実ともに終焉を迎えた後も、明治初期の太政官制明治維新の太政官に付随して引き継がれた。