When the Kamakura period started and the Zen sect was introduced into Japan, the systematic garan layout was revived; this period saw a garan layout that had a sanmon gate, a Buddha hall and a lecture hall built on a straight line, following the somon gate (the gate at the entrance of a temple).
鎌倉時代になると、禅宗の伝来によって再び整然とした伽藍配置が行われ、総門を入ると三門（山門）・仏殿・法堂（はっとう）が一直線に建つ伽藍配置が現れた。