Kouya Hijiri：英訳「高野聖」

「高野聖」英訳を出版？

以前、英訳した泉鏡花の「高野聖」をKindleで出版してみたい、と以前から思っていました。2005年頃に当事立ち上げていたHPの英語版で掲載していたものです。その後、HPのサーバーがダウンしてデータが飛んだまま放置していました。英語版HPでは、ちょっとした怪談を載せていたのですが、それを見かけたアメリカのアマチュア怪談ライターがコンタクトを取ってきて、彼が英語で書いていた日本の怪談「耳なし芳一」へのアドバイスをしていたことがあります。なんせ、深層の姫君の前で琵琶を演奏

Kouya Hijiri： A Japanese Gothic Tale

Kouya Hijiri： A Japanese Gothic Tale by Izumi Kyoka translated by Uno Mire Izumi Kyoka (1873-1939) is 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 p

Kouya Hijiri: CHAPTER １

"… Then I pulled out the map again, from my bag". Said the monk, "The road I was on was so remote that I wanted to check it against a map. The burning sun was so strong I had to shade the map against the glare with my wooden hat, like this.

Kouya Hijiri: CHAPTER 4

I hurried along. The merchant had put me in a terrible mood. Soon the trail became steep. The medicine merchant came up behind me and passed me without a word. So much the better for me, since I was too angry with him to speak. He ignored

Kouya Hijiri: CHAPTER 5

This was the first person I'd met here other than the merchant. The merchant was a professional traveler and might know the pass well, but I wanted to be sure. I stopped the farmer and said "I would like to ask you something. Should I take

Kouya Hijiri: CHAPTER 6

I followed the merchant, climbing a large rock, pushing through thick wikid forest, and traveling on and on, trying to catch up to him. At last, I broke through into a large field. The rocky trail became a broad road. But the merchant was

Kouya Hijiri: CHAPTER ７

I couldn't stand there forever crying for myself. I finally gathered my strength and moved on. I went into the bush, stepping around the dead body of the snake. Even then, even though the snake was dead, I was so shaken with fear I panicked

Kouya Hijiri: CHAPTER 8

Though I still felt lonely, it was much more comfortable to walk in the coolness of the forest dark. When I had passed halfway through the forest, something dropped on my hat. At first I thought it was an acorn. I tried to shake it off bu

Kouya Hijiri: CHAPTER 9

Deliriously I imagined the end of the world coming to mankind, not by fire or flood or tidal waves, but from here - this forest of blood suckers - melting into a tsunami of leeches consuming the world of the living. I had entered the fores

Kouya Hijiri: CHAPTER 10

I was slowing down, and didn't think I'd be able to make it up the next slope ahead. Just then, I heard the neigh of horses. I thought it might be horses drivers, or perhaps a carriage. It hadn't been very long since I'd parted from the far

Kouya Hijiri: CHAPTER 11

"It's about 20 miles." "Is there somewhere I can stay near here?" "No, there isn't." She looked at me straight with clear eyes. "To tell the truth," I said plainly "I'm tired out and I couldn't go a step further, even there was a rich ho

Kouya Hijiri: CHAPTER 12

“Please follow me.” She stood with the small tub in her hands, and put a towel in her sash. Her gorgeous long hair was piled high and bound with a simple comb and hairpin. She was so beautiful. I put on the geta she offered me, and looked

Kouya Hijiri: CHAPTER 13

There was a tall thin pine tree which I took hold of and looked up. The gibbous moon was overhead and stars were coming out. I had lost sight of her. I looked down and there she was at the foot of a small cliff looking up. “Be careful.” Sh

Kouya Hijiri: CHAPTER 14

‘We’re lucky the stream is full of water today, we can wash on this rock.” She stood on a high flat rock in the midst of the stream. Her bare feet under the ankle deep water were white as snow. There was a cliff on our side of the stream, a

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