Many newspapers dedicated a large space in mourning the great literary figure's death, and therefore the news of Oyama's death on the following day was so simple compared to that of other elder statesmen, but rather impressed differences from him and the others newly.
新聞の多くは文豪の死を悼んで多くの紙面を彼に割いたため、明くる日の大山の訃報は他の元老の訃報とは比較にならないほど地味なものだったが、それが大山と他の元老たちの違いを改めて印象づけた。