However, as for the Takashina clan, because TAKASHINA no Morohisa, the eighth generation decedent of the Emperor Tenmu, was an adopted son, the line of Emperor Tenmu stopped there.
但し高階氏に関しては、天武天皇の雲孫（8代孫）に当たる高階師尚が養子なので、以降天武天皇血筋は継いでいない。