The landscape ukiyoe picture was called ' meishoe ' in those days; this series was such a great commercial success that meishoe was defined as a new genre along with yakushae (a print of a kabuki actor ) and bijinga (a type of ukiyoe portraying beautiful women ). 浮世絵の風景画は当時「名所絵」と呼ばれており、このシリーズの商業的成功により、名所絵が役者絵や美人画と並ぶジャンルとして確立したと言える。
The overseas capital which quickly paid attention to such characteristics of japanese succeeded especially in this period as beaujolais nouveau in france which introduced the propaganda , ' japan is the first country where it ' s sold .' 「解禁日をいちばん早く迎える国は日本」という宣伝戦略を打ったフランスのボジョレーヌーボーのように、そういう日本人の特性にいち早く目をつけた海外資本は、このときとばかりに巨額の商業的成功をおさめた。