However, from Emperor Gomizunoo's empress Masako TOKUGAWA (Tofukumonin) Nyoin from an empress was revived, and there were Nyoin from among the princesses, such as Reiseimonin, but it was abolished at the time of the Meiji Restoration, with Naoko OGIMACHI (Shintaikenmonin, Emperor Komei's birth mother) as the last.
しかし後水尾天皇中宮徳川和子（東福門院）以後后からの女院が復活、また内親王からの女院として礼成門院のような例もあったが、正親町雅子（新待賢門院、孝明天皇生母）を最後に明治維新の時に廃止される。