However, as time passed to reach the period of culture of Bunka and Bunsei, many gakuke including from gakuke each with long history such as the Toyohara family, the Shiba family, and the Tsuji family to families of low-ranked gakunin became so-called iemoto, the head of a system of licensing from a head family of a school with many pupils.
しかしさらに時代が下って化政文化のころには、豊原家・芝家・辻家といった古来からの楽家から下級楽人の家々にいたるまで、多くの門人を抱えるいわゆる家元になっていった。