In addition to those like the nishiki-e versions of Tokyo-nichinichi Shinbun and Yubin-hochi Shinbun whose numbers of copies were verified to be many, some nishiki-e-shinbun were issued for a limited number of times as advertisements or attachments to the main paper.
なお、東京日日新聞や郵便報知新聞の錦絵版のように多数の発行が確認されるもののほか、本紙の宣伝や付録として、ごく限られた回数のみ発行されたものもある。