His wife, Kokko SOMA had been a patron of Rokuzan OGIWARA all her life, and took care of a Russian blind poet, Eroshenko, and was also on friendly terms with Naoe KINOSHITA, which made Nakamuraya just like a literary saloon, and made her a female lead character of the saloon.
相馬黒光夫人も荻原碌山の終生のパトロンであったし、ロシアの盲詩人エロシェンコの面倒をみたり、木下尚江との交友もあって中村屋はまさに文芸サロンであり、夫人はサロンの女主人公であった。