Around the end of the Edo period, Sanetake MUSHANOKOJI the eighth joined the Teishin hachiju-hachi kyo (eighty-eight retainers of Imperial Court) to oppose the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and Japan (Demo of eighty-eight retainers of Imperial Court).
幕末の8代武者小路実建は日米修好通商条約に反対して廷臣八十八卿の列参に加わった（廷臣八十八卿列参事件）。