After the Yaemon the seventh period, Shirojiro KONPARU, the eighth, a sotomago (a grandchild from a daughter married into another family) of Zeami, inherited the artistic tradition of the school.
7世・彌右衛門の後に世阿弥の外孫にあたる8世・金春四郎次郎が芸系を受け継いだ。