The roughness in the pictures hints that they were painted by local painters, but they are highly appreciated as important materials for the study of folklore and religious history and the pictures of rice planting, where the cultivation by buffalos and the scene of sohei goso (direct petition by priest soldier) and so on are painted, are widely known.
絵の荒さから地方画師の制作が指摘されているが、民俗学、宗教史研究の上で貴重な資料として高い評価を得ており、牛耕の様子が描かれている田植図、僧兵強訴などの場面が広く知られている。