It is hard to say Michinobu was successful in his attempt for pictorial expression, but his determination was taken over by the painters in the Kobikicho family, which later became most prosperous among the four families of okueshi until the end of the Edo period.
絵画表現においては、典信の意図は成功したとは言い難い面があるけれども、その意欲はのちの木挽町家の絵師に引き継がれ、木挽町家が幕末まで奥絵師4家の中で最も繁栄することとなる。