One nineteenth century male social critic commented as follows about this practice:

"Hanging a picture of the Wagô twins in the alcove, lighting lamps around it, adorning it with things, and praying to it for good fortune is of the utmost stupidity. It is bad enough that foolish women do such things, but how could men possibly rely on such practices? It should go without saying that such practices are benighted, a case of failing to understand natural principles."

Quoted in Hattori Yukio 服部幸雄, Sakasama no yûrei さかさまの幽霊 (Upside-down ghosts) (Heibonsha, 1989), pp. 174-175.