Later, its scale gradually shrank until it became merely a troop of guards for the imperial palace, and even their function as guards was lost as times changed from the Muromachi period, period of Oda and Toyotomi, and to the Edo period, but despite the fact that it did not appear at all in the Kinmon Incident when fire by war came closest to the imperial palace in modern history, it existed until the Meiji Restoration to describe family lineage.
その後、徐々にその規模は縮小し単なる御所の警備隊と化し、さらに室町時代・織豊時代・江戸時代と変遷するにしたがって警備隊の機能すら失い、近世で最も御所に兵火が迫った禁門の変においても全く登場する事がなかったが、家柄を表す名目として明治維新まで存続した。