Later, Hirofusa worked as Kyoto Court Director General (one of the Japanese municipal system), Kotaigogushoku (Imperial Household Agency employee assigned to the household of Queen Mother) of Imperial Household Ministry in the early Meiji Period before the new cabinet system was introduced, and so forth.
その後は京都裁判所(地方制度)総督、宮内省明治初期（1869年-1885年）、皇太后宮職などを務めた。