Also, as the group was relatively undiscriminatory against women for its time, Ichiyo HIGUCHI was soon discovered as an excellent poet, and Akiko YOSANO and Raicho HIRATSUKA were also highly evaluated.
また、当時としては女性蔑視が少なく、樋口一葉をいち早く激賞しただけでなく、与謝野晶子と平塚らいてうも早くから高く評価した。