In the early-modern times the school of Kanze was recognized as the head of Shiza Ichiryu that was given patronage by bakufu, and the school exerted the greatest influence until the end of the Edo period.
近世期、観世流は幕府に抱えられる四座一流の筆頭とされ、幕末まで最大の流勢を誇った。