Soseki NATSUME praised "Hakai" (in a letter addressed to Sohei MORITA) as "it is a masterpiece among those novels written in Meiji Period, which should be passed on to future generations."
夏目漱石は、『破戒』を「明治の小説としては後世に伝ふべき名篇也」（森田草平宛て書簡）と評価した。