Kouya Hijiri　by Izumi Kyoka

Kouya Hijiri by Izumi Kyoka

Translation by Mire Uno and Chris Garcia

Kouya Hijiri or Priest of Mt. Kouya is a novel by Izumi Kyoka (1873-1939) , a Japanese novelist in Meiji period. He is well known for his romantic and mystic novels.

Kouya Hijiri or Priest of Mt. Kouya is first published in "Shin Shosetsu (New Novels)" magazine in Meiji 33rd (1901). Mt. Kouya is a sacred mountain for Buddhism in Osaka. In this short novel, an old monk told his mysterious experience in his youth to a young man in an old inn.

For readers' convenience, we devided into several parts and put headline for each part.

INDEX

1: Old Monk I met on a train

2: Leech Forest

3: The Lone House in the Mountain

4: Bathing in Mountain Stream

5: Taming of the Horse

6: The Beauty and the Fool

7: Her Power

Present by Mire Uno, with great help from Chris Garcia.