 Contributors included renowned poet and women’s rights proponent Yosano Akiko, among others.Exaggerated stories of their love affairs and nonconformism, spread by Japan's mainstream press, turned public opinion against the magazine and prompted Raichō to publish several fierce defenses of her ideals.Her April 1913 essay "To the Women of the World" () rejected the conventional role of women as "ryōsai kenbo" (, Good wife and wise mother)