In recent years, Shokubunke Shudan of the Kita school withdrew from 'Kita gathering,' which Kitaryu Soke (the head family or house of Kita school) presides, at the same time, and have been actually operating the Kita school as Kitaryu shokubunkai (gathering of Kita school's occupational branch families).
近年では喜多流の職分家集団が一斉に喜多流宗家の主宰する「喜多会」を離脱し、喜多流職分会として事実上喜多流を運営している。