So this episode, we focus on Akiko Yosano, one of the most famous japanese writers who influenced the movement of feminism in Japan. Her themes and message are the total opposite of Tanizaki who feared the "free and educated western woman" idea and shamed as dangerous.

Akiko uses the same idea but portrays a sexually-active free and strong woman as a good thing - a sort of emancipation from conservative "honest silent wife' stereotype and her writing overall goes against the basis of conservative closed-off Japanese societal beliefs.

So its only fitting that her character is extremely brutal in portrayal defying the stereotype of "japanese woman" - she is a character who refuses to go down or accept defeat. Someone who has a strong presence in the scenes she is in.

At the same time the episode also introduces to us Kyoka Izumi. Real life Izumi was one of the more prominent supernatural writers in Japan, yet he also did not stray away from adding quite a bit of social commentary into his works - he used the mythological and supernatural to emphasize the problems he saw within society.

Hilariously this episode's story of Akiko and Atsushi's adventure might as well been written by Izumi considering that kind of interaction is frequently seen in his works(ex: Holy Man of Mount Koya which is about a young priest encountering a sexually attractive alluring older woman with demonic powers, who ends up teaching the priest a lot about life and hypocrisy of right and wrong).

Overall another strong episode in line of strong episodes that draw a lot from real life histories of the writers that the characters are based upon. This is basically Kekkai Sensen but with added level of meta depth that would make any lover of Japanese literature drool in joy