Supposedly, shoji with a white background or on which fusuma-e (images drawn on fusuma sliding door) were drawn were used in a formal guest room and were called fusuma-shoji, shoji covered with woodblock printed karakami of one color background without a pattern or a fine pattern placed in an informal living room or sukiya (style of a tea-ceremony house) style building were called karakami-shoji.
一応、正式の客間には、白地または襖絵が描かれたものを用いて襖障子と称し、略式の居間や数寄屋風の建物には、色無地や小紋柄を木版で刷った唐紙を使用し、唐紙障子と称したようである。