Under the Edo bakufu, during the administration of the Tokugawa clan after the Toyotomi administration, the regulation gradually became tempered and the Edo bakufu tended to present its authority to be higher than that of the Imperial Court in Kyoto, so the usage and prevalence of Kiku-mon among common people had been spurred by ornaments such as clasps and carvings of Buddhist objects, design of Japanese cakes and the design of store curtains.
豊臣政権から徳川氏の政権である江戸幕府に交代してからは次第に禁止令は緩まり、また江戸幕府は自己の権威を京の朝廷の上に置こうとしていた傾向から、同様の菊紋は仏具の金具・彫刻や和菓子の造形、又は暖簾の図柄に用いられるなど、一般人への使用・普及に拍車を掛けた。