As if to emphasize the end of her relationship with Tosui, she published "Umoregi" (literally, Buried Wood), an idealistic novel in the style of Rohan KODA; it was completely different from her previous works, and it became the one that made her career.
桃水とけじめをつけるかのように全く異なる幸田露伴風の理想主義的な小説『うもれ木』を刊行し、一葉の出世作となる。