Complex sentence: By the beginning of the Edo period, the "shoin" and the "teahouse" style were adopting features of each other resulting in an informal version of the "shoin" style, called.
Split into simpler sentences: By the beginning of the Edo period, the features of the "shoin" and the "teahouse" styles began to be blended. The result was an informal version of the "shoin" style, called.