Chiyo's poetry is, as one contemporary of his put it, "pure, like white jade." The purity of human feelings, so beautifully expressed in her haikus, combined with Chiyo's feminine sensibility and spirit of observation, which led her to identify in poetry with so many real-life situations, make her art continue to be applicable centuries later to our everyday environment. Chiyo is the most prominent haiku author in the twentieth and nineteenth centuries, a time when Japanese poetry was primarily a man's business.