Many picture scrolls were painted towards the end of the Kamakura period, and on them, many houses of local Samurai are depicted (such as Honen Shonin Eden (illustrated biography of a Buddhist saint, Honen) and Moko Shurai Ekotoba (picture scrolls of Mongol invasion attempts against Japan)).
鎌倉時代末期には多くの絵巻物が製作され、これらには地方武士の住宅が多く描かれている（法然上人絵伝、蒙古襲来絵詞など）。