Bungo Province
During the Kenmu restoration temples like Jōmyō-ji in Sagami Province and in Bungo Province were already part of the system, which is therefore assumed to have been born during the late Kamakura period. Nothing else is known however about the character and structure of the system at the time. In 1341 the system included Jōmyō-ji, , Tōshō-ji and Manju-ji in Sagami province, Manju-ji, , and in Yamashiro Province, in Kōzuke Province, in Chikuzen Province and Manju-ji in Bungo.