In later years, it came to mean doso operated by common people under the protection of Enryaku-ji Temple by means of acquiring a position called Sanmonkunin, which was given to the servants whose honjo (proprietor or guarantor of a manor) was a temple.
後には民間の土倉が延暦寺を本所として山門公人（くにん）の身分を獲得してその庇護を受ける者を指した。