It declined in the early Meiji period and a male priest temporarily entered from the Tenryu-ji Temple, but later about the half of the temple estate was returned to the Imperial Family and included in the Shugakuin Imperial Villa in 1884, the temple had become ama-monzeki again.
明治初期には衰退して一時期天龍寺から男僧が入寺したが、明治17年（1884年）寺域の約半分が皇室に返還されて修学院離宮の一部となり、寺は再び尼門跡となった。