Thereafter, MINAMOTO no Morofusa (adopted son of kanpaku (chief adviser to the Emperor) FUJIWARA no Yorimichi) of Murakami-Genji was appointed as Genji choja, and since then, MINAMOTO no Masasada and his descendants, namely persons of the Koga family, the Horikawa family, the Tsuchimikado family and the Nakanoin family who were deemed as the direct descendants of Morofusa, inherited this position.
やがて村上源氏の源師房（関白藤原頼通養子）が源氏長者となり、以後は村上源氏のなかでも師房子孫の嫡流とされた源雅定の子孫に継承され、久我家・堀川家・土御門家・中院家の四家から選ばれることとなった。