Peddlers were not limited in places to do their business, and were so everywhere around Edo that there were few pages without illustrations of the peddlers in the 'Edo Meisho Zue' (the topography consisting of 20 books in 7 series in the Edo period written from 1834 to 1836).
振売は商売をする場所が決まっておらず「江戸名所図会」などは振売の描かれていないページのほうが少ないほど、彼らは江戸市中いたるところにいた。