現実と非現実の境界が曖昧な幻想的自然描写と、絢爛豪華で(けんらんごうかで)美しい日本語の響き

The charm of 'The Holy Man of Mount Koya' lies in the fantastical nature descriptions where the boundary between reality and unreality becomes blurry, and in Kyoka's uniquely gorgeous and beautiful ring of the Japanese language. The tense relationship between the beautiful witch of the deep mountains and the traveling monk presents a supreme beauty despite being a gothic novel, highly acclaimed to this day.