While experiencing a decline between the late Muromachi Period and the Sengoku Period (Period of Warring States), in more recent years the Tsuchimikado family was given regulatory rights across the country over onmyoji by the Edo bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) and they enjoyed their prosperity until the beginning of the Meiji Period.
その土御門家は、室町時代後期から戦国時代には一時衰退したものの、近世において江戸幕府から全国の陰陽師の差配権を与えられるなど、明治時代初頭まで隆盛を誇った。