Among Hosokawa-gami, the type made in Ogawa town, Hiki-gun is especially famous and flourished and earned the word of 'pikkari sen-ryo' (a sunny millionaire), which means that 'if the weather is good, you can make a large profit in a day,' and was used as a material paper to process an account book or a fusuma paper for townspeople.
細川紙では、特に比企郡小川町が有名で、「ぴっかり千両」という言葉があり、「天気さえ良ければ一日千両になる」と言われたほど繁栄し、江戸町人の帳簿用や襖紙加工の原紙として利用された。