Soho TOKUTOMI regarded his translation highly, and in August Ogai published a book of poems "Omokage" (Vestiges) (his signature was S. S. S) which he translated into Japanese as an appendix to the summer issue of "Kokumin no tomo" (The Nation's Friend), a magazine published by Minyusha, for which Soho was working as a chief editor.
その翻訳戯曲を高く評価したのが徳富蘇峰であり、8月に蘇峰が主筆をつとめる民友社の雑誌『国民之友』夏期文芸付録に、訳詩集『於母影』（署名は「S･S･S」（新声社の略記））を発表した。