An electronic sewing machine (M) which makes a needle bar move up and down through a sewing machine spindle which is driven by a sewing machine motor of the sewing machine body provided with an illustration data storage unit (15) which stores a plurality of illustration data, a display unit (4) which displays the illustration data which is stored in the illustration data storage unit, an audio data storage unit (20) which stores audio data which corresponds to the illustration data, and an audio output unit (21) which outputs audio data which is stored in the audio data storage unit and displaying the illustration data on the display unit while outputting audio data corresponding to the illustration data from the audio output unit. Due to this, preferably illustration data which can reduce the frequency of screen switching to reduce the load of the operator without increasing the size of the display unit is data for explaining a method of use of the sewing machine and the audio data is data of explanations corresponding to the illustration data.