The incense-smelling ceremony declined after the Meiji Restoration just like other public entertainments, but after the World War II, it made a comeback and now there are two branches; the Shino school and the Oie school.
香道は諸芸能と同様維新後に衰退したが、戦後に盛り返して現在は御家流と共に大きく二分している。