They sometimes did it for snaring customers of the other merchants such as Kamishibai (picture-story show) or repairers of kiseru and so on, or did it independently as a show of craftsmanship, where they made candies on the spot following the customer's request like the art of paper-cutting and shaped the forms of animals or flowers and so on in front of them and became an entertaining business.
これを紙芝居やキセルの修理屋などのほかの商売の客寄せとして行うこともあれば、職人芸を見世物として独立させ、切り絵のようにその場で客の要望によって作っていくことにより、動物や花などを目の前で仕上げ、楽しませる商売となった。