The impaired reputation of Kinmura TOKUDAIJI and others were restored by conferring their court ranks one step higher than their last ranks in their life time in 1891 after the collapse of the Tokugawa bakufu.
徳大寺公城らは、徳川幕府崩壊後の明治24年（1891年）に晴れて名誉回復を受け、各々の生前の最終官位から一つ上格の官位の追贈を受けた。