However, it is said that the O-oku female servant system became disorganized towards the end of the bakufu period, and that Anekoji in the era of Ieyoshi TOKUGAWA, the twelfth shogun, was largely involved in governmental operations of the bakufu as well.
但し幕末になると大奥女中の職制が崩れていたとされ、12代徳川家慶時代の姉小路は幕政にも大きく関与したとされる。