The family head at the end of the Edo period was Suetomo SANJONISHI, who had many achievements in the Meiji Restoration as one of the so-called exiles of the seven nobles, and who gained fame as a waka master of the Emperor Meiji.
幕末期の当主は三条西季知で、いわゆる七卿落ちの一人として維新に際して勲功があり、また明治天皇の和歌師範としても有名である。