Modern Japanese Literature is Donald Keene’s critically acclaimed companion volume to his landmark Anthology of Japanese Literature. Now considered the standard canon of modern Japanese writing translated into English, Modern Japanese Literature include
"The Saint of Mt. Koya" is translated from "Koya Hijiri." This translation originally appeared in The Saint of Mt. Koya and The Song of the Troubadour, published in 1990 by The Committee of the Translation of the Works of Izumi Kyoka (Kanazawa, Japan).
