As this book has many parts where indecent and shameful behaviors are written about, I feel no hesitation to judge it as something harmful to the mind of people and besmirches moral teachings.' (the September 1901 issue of 'Uta no hana' [the flowers of poetry])
「此一書は既に猥行醜態を記したる所多し人心に害あり世教に毒あるものと判定するに憚からざるなり。」（「歌の華」明治34年9月号）