However, he was still not quite free of influence from Gesaku (literary work of a playful, mocking, joking, silly or frivolous nature) literature himself, and later, the incompleteness of these modern literature standpoints were critically indicated by Shimei FUTABATEI in "Shosetsu Soron"(general remarks of a novel), "Ukigumo (Shimei FUTABATEI)" (Floating Clouds) (the first "Ukigumo" was published in the name of Yuzo TSUBOUCHI for commercial reasons).
しかし逍遙自身がそれまでの戯作文学の影響から脱しきれておらず、これらの近代文学観が不完全なものに終っていることが、後に二葉亭四迷の『小説総論』『浮雲(二葉亭四迷)』によって批判的に示された（『浮雲』第一編は営業上の理由で坪内雄蔵名義で刊行された）。