In Osaka, because of the reasons including that there was no daily paper regularly published and, therefore, nishiki-e-shinbun there played a more important role than that of nishiki-e-shinbun in Tokyo as a news medium.
大阪では日刊紙が定着してなかったこともあり、東京の錦絵新聞よりもニュース媒体としてもっと大きな役割を果たした。