Due to the abolition of domains and the employment of prefectural governance after the Meiji Restoration, the central government terminated the chigyo system, and Samurai privileges were fully abolished by Haitorei (the decree banning the wearing of swords) and Chitsuroku-shobun (Abolition Measure of Hereditary Stipend).
その知行制度も、明治維新後の廃藩置県によって中央政府が任命した府知事・県令の派遣によって終わり、武士の特権も廃刀令と秩禄処分によって完全に廃止された。