In 1895, when Koremichi TAKEHARA died, since there were no men in the family, Yusai's seal, the family record, books and others were put under Baron Tadamasu HOSOKAWA's charge (a lord of the Nagaoka Gyobu family, a relative of the Hotokawa clan) and the Matsui clan (old Karo, the chief retainer family, the eighth castellan) and followers preserved the tradition until they gave them back to Masafumi, the heir of the Takehara family in 1930.
明治28年に竹原惟路が没した時に男子がなかったため、細川興増男爵（細川氏一門の子飼細川家〈長岡刑部家〉当主）に幽斎の印・伝統系図・伝書類などが預けられ、松井氏（旧家老家、八代城主）ら門人により伝統が守られたが、昭和5年に竹原家の後継者正文に返還された。