When the Baku-han system (the feudal system characteristic of the Shogunate) was put in place, the Edo bakufu (the Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) tried to control Ommyo-ji across the country by rebuilding the Tsuchimikado family and the Koutokui family, branch families of the Kamo clan.
幕藩体制が確立すると、江戸幕府は陰陽師の活動を統制するため、土御門家と賀茂氏の分家幸徳井家を再興させて諸国陰陽師を支配させようとした。