A style of architecture imported from China during the Song dynasty. It includes the architectural elements that came with the Zen sect, Zenshū 禅宗, imported from China during the early Kamakura period. Zen was brought to Japan by the Japanese Buddhist priest Eisai 栄西 (also Yōsai, 1141-1215). The word kara 唐 meant Chinese, but kara also included other foreign imports; for example, things imported from Southeast Asia. A specific example is sandalwood which is called *karaki 唐木. However, to express the architectural style that came into Japan with Zen Buddhism, Dr. Ōta Hirotarō 太田博太郎, well-known architectural historian, created the term zenshūyō, to replace karayō 唐様. This has been widely accepted, especially in Japanese books on architecture published in English.