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, highly regarded this writer as one of the most intelligent female authors in Japan, and Masao Miyoshi, an American critic and academic, identified her as being among the most insightful and historically aware writers.