sentences:  In the bakumatsu period, Kujō supported the Shogunate policy as one of highest courtier of the imperial court and hence lost the power at the very beginning of Meiji restoration when the annihilation of the Shogunate was announced on 1868-01-03.His right to show at the imperial court was halted.Soon later in the same year he was rehabilitated and appointed of the clan master of Fujiwara clan.