This brought about the situation in Europe that Ukiyoe pieces were traded at high prices that were unthinkable in Japan at the time, while in Japan Ukiyoe were for ordinary people's entertainment and secondhand and defective ones were traded at prices so low that they were used as packaging material for sea cargoes.
このことにより、日本では庶民の娯楽であり、読み古されたものやミスプリントが船便の梱包材に使われるほど安値で取引されていた浮世絵は、ヨーロッパで当時の日本人には考えられないほどの高値で取引される事になった。