After the death of the thirteenth generation, his wife Namie deicided to become the fourteenth Risai and have her daughter Chiyoko succeed her in the future, but the daughter died young in 1961, and she also died in 1977, leaving the position vacant to this day.
13代の死後、妻であった浪江は娘・千代子を後継者とするべく家業の継承を決意、14代・利斎となるが、その千代子も昭和36年（1961年）に早世、14代も昭和52年に死去、以後現在に至るまで名跡は空席となっている。