In the field of literature, he pointed at idealism to describe subjective concepts, such as ideals and principles, which caused confrontation with Shoyo TSUBOUCHI who contrarily looked to realistic anti-idealism to describe things and phenomenons objectively.
文学においては理想や理念など主観的なものを描くべきだとする理想主義を掲げ、事物や現象を客観的に描くべきだとする写実主義的な没理想を掲げる坪内逍遥と衝突する。