Kenzaburō Ōe, Japan's Nobel Laureate, described her as one of the most lucidly intelligent female writers in Japan, and the US critic and academic Masao Miyoshi identified her as among the most "critically alert and historically intelligent.
Kenzaburō Ōe, a Nobel laureate from Japan, recognized this author as one of the most intellectually gifted female writers in Japan, while Masao Miyoshi, an American critic and scholar, considered her to be among the most perceptive and historically aware writers.