After being managed by the Ministry of Interior, the Local Finance Bureaus of the Ministry of Treasury, and then the Nara Prefectural Government, the precinct land, which was reduced to one fifths of its original space, was sold to Todai-ji Temple in 1951.
内務省、大蔵省財務局から奈良県の管轄となっていた境内地は、昭和26年に元の面積の五分の一ではあるが、払い下げられた。