However, ghost pictures in the Edo Period, including these works of Buson's, were intended in many cases to be comical and familiar, showing an entertaining tendency and trying to enjoy specters as a fiction; something that can be similarly seen in modern specter comics.
が、この蕪村を含む江戸時代の妖怪画は、滑稽なものや親しみのあるものとして描かれるものが多く、妖怪をフィクションとして楽しもうとする娯楽性が見て取れ、現代の妖怪漫画にも通じているとの見方もある。