After the Meiji Restoration, Hikotaro the 11th passed away without a successor in 1870 and the head family became extinct, but Shigero (the 12th), a son of Kokei NISHIMURA, who was one of Hikotaro's leading followers, restored the family in 1929 backed up by Ukyo KONGO.
維新後、十一世彦太郎が後嗣を欠いたまま没し（1870年）、宗家が絶えたが、金剛右京らの斡旋により彦太郎の高弟であった西村弘敬の子滋郎（十二世）が1929年に再興。