Why doesn't Kotlin translate getters and setters for static fields?

Kotlin will translate a Java class with getters and setters

class Foo {
  private int a = 23;
  public int getA() {
    return a;
  }
  public void setA(int a) {
    this.a = a;
  }
}

so that you can just use

foo.a
foo.a = 13

in your Kotlin code.

However, it will not do this if the Java field is declared as static.

static int a = 23;

Why is this? Is it a technical limitation?