The Eight Views of Ōmi then became a popular subject for artists such as Suzuki Harunobu and Utagawa Hiroshige.

The theme continued to develop, being transposed to other locations and settings in a process which the Japanese called mitate,[1] such as in Harunobu's Zashiki Hakkei series.

The sights were depicted by Hiroshige in several different series of ukiyo-e pictures, as well as other artists.

[2][3] They are sometimes erroneously called "Eight Views of Lake Biwa", but the latter were defined to include different locations in 1949 by the government of Shiga Prefecture.

A series called "Eight views of Kanazawa"[4] reflects a bay near Yokohama.