However, due to these reforms, lewd images and erotic books were banned and, together with the decline of novels, the readers of novels switched over to 'Gokan' picture books leading to an increase in the number of titles published.
しかしこの改革によって好色画・好色本が禁圧され人情本が衰退すると、人情本の読者が合巻に流れて刊行点数が増大した。