To form an electronic writing board enabling the load of a writer for scrolling the writing surface to be reduced by forming the writing surface in a manner being scrolled automatically in accordance with the writing position.

CPU operates to set position being moved downward at α in the Y-axis direction from the writing starting position when writing start is detected (S22: Yes) at a standard position (S24), and when detection is done (S28: Yes) in such that the writing region exceeds the standard position, the lapse of time T from that of the writing stop operation is counted (S30), and when detection is done (S34: Yes) in that it exceeds the setting time T1, a driving signal is outputted to the motor so that the writing surface is scrolled upward at a predetermined distance.