Various materials were used to create various shoji such as kinu-shoji (silk shoji), nuno-shoji (cloth shoji), kami-shoji (paper shoji), ita-shoji (board shoji), sugi-shoji (cedar shoji) and fuku-shoji (also called oshi-shoji and was used as a wall), and akari-shoji and others were devised near the end of the Heian period.
仕上げ材料によって絹障子、布障子、紙障子、板障子、杉障子、そして副障子（押障子ともいい壁として用いた）や平安末期には明かり障子などが工夫されている。