By the end of the Muromachi Period, temples with shoin, and samurai residences with oshi-ita, tana and shoin were being built, and the style of shoin-zukuri was gradually formed.
室町時代後期には、寺院の書院や武家住宅に押板や棚、書院を備えるものが造られるようになり、次第に書院造の形式が整えられていった。