錦 — brocade, fine dress, honors

錦にしきあやなす 木々きぎで 山やまが 染 まっていた。

The mountainside was ablaze with the autumn colors of the trees.

紅葉に映える千種川の清流をかつて幽囚されていた蜀（成都）の錦江になぞらえ、山号を金華山とした。

Comparing the clear waters reflecting the colored leaves of the Chikusa-gawa River nearby to the Kinko, or Jing Jiang River in Shou (Chengdu) where he was imprisoned, he named the sango (literally, "a mountain name"), the title prefixed to the name of the Houn-ji Temple, Mt. Kinka (the characters mean gold and flower).

錦絵新聞の成功を追うように平仮名絵入新聞のような、絵と振り仮名をそなえた小新聞が発行され始めると、それに押されるように錦絵新聞は大衆の視野から消えていった。

When small-scale newspapers each including pictures and furigana like hiragana-eiri-shinbun started to be issued as if they followed the success of nishiki-e-shinbun, nishiki-e-shinbun disappeared from the visual field of the general public as it was overwhelmed by those small-scale newspapers.