However, partly because of the suppression by Sanmon (the Tendai sect) and by the powerful families who cooperated with Sanmon, it was after the Sengoku period (period of warring states, Japan) that those sects began to have a power (except the Rinzai sect which was protected by Kamakura bakufu [Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun]).
ただし、山門（天台宗）勢力やそれと結んだ権門体制勢力の弾圧もあり、これらの宗派が力を持ち始めるのは戦国時代(日本)以降である（鎌倉幕府の庇護を受けた臨済宗を除く）。