Yamada Bimyō

[1] Jim Reichert, author of Yamada Bimyō: Historical Fiction and Modern Love, wrote that Bimyō was "one of the most influential literary reformers of the 1880s" who had "an instrumental role" in producing rekishi shōsetsu, the modern form of a Japanese historical novel.

[3] Bimyō was a part of the "Ken'yūsha" ("Friends of the Inkstone") Meiji literary group formed in February 1885, along with Ozaki Kōyō, Ishibashi Shian, and Maruoka Kyūka.

Yukiko Tanaka, author of Women Writers of Meiji and Taisho Japan: Their Lives, Works and Critical Reception, 1868-1926, stated that the marriage would not have occurred if his financial troubles did not exist.

[5] Bimyō told Ozaki Kōyō, who criticized his affairs, that the dalliances were to enhance his artistic abilities.

[2] Tomi Suzuki, author of Narrating the Self: Fictions of Japanese Modernity, wrote that Bimyō's writing style "was in fact far from the spoken languages of the time.