Kara-e paintings began to be drawn on tsuitate shoji (an original form of fusuma), folding screens and oshitsuke-kabe (a fixed and unmoving fusuma which is used as a wall), and in the mid-ninth centuries yamato-e paintings began to be drawn.
襖の原型である衝立障子や屏風そして押しつけ壁にも、唐絵が描かれるようになり、九世紀中頃には大和絵が描かれるようになった。