Naoyuki KINOSHITA mentioned about the story of Yoarashi Okinu that the story and image do not always have to inhere in the affair of Kinu and are left to the judgment of a dramatist and a painter.
木下直之は夜嵐おきぬの物語について「物語も画像も必ずしもキヌの事件に必ずしも内在する必要はなく、戯作者と絵師の判断に委ねられる」と述べている。