In addition, she said, under her elder brother's influence, 'by the time I was twelve or thirteen, my greatest pleasure was reading literary magazines "Shigaramisoshi" (and later its successor "Mezamashigusa") and "Bungakukai" as well as novels by Koyo OZAKI, Rohan KODA, and Ichiyo HIGUCHI' ("Myojo" May 1906).
また兄の影響を受け、「十二、三のころから、『柵草紙』（後には『めざまし草』）『文学界』や尾崎紅葉、幸田露伴、樋口一葉などの小説を読むのが一番の楽しみ」（『明星』明治39年5月）であった。