After that, in accordance with Genzoku (return to secular life) of the last Inju, Ryuho, Monzeki (the chief priest) of Daijo-in Temple (a son of Hisatada KUJO) due to Haibutsu-kishaku (a movement to abolish Buddhism) in 1869, the temple was lost, and Ryuho who called himself 'Hisayoshi MATSUZONO' after Genzoku was given a viscount based on the Peerage Law.
更に明治2年（1869年）の廃仏毀釈により最後の院主・大乗院門跡隆芳（九条尚忠の子）は還俗して消滅、なお還俗後に「松園尚嘉」と名乗った隆芳は華族令によって子爵を授けられている。