Erstveröffentlichung in Arusu アルス (Ars), Juni 1915. Siehe auch Ōgai zenshū 16: 81–100.

“Two Friends: A Translation of Mori Ōgai’s ‘Futari no Tomo’”. Transl. James M. Vardaman, Jr. – in: Tōhoku Gakuin Daigaku ronshū. Eigo eibungaku / Essays and Studies in English Language & Literature 71 (1980): 147–66.

“Futari no Tomo: Two Friends”. Transl. James M. Vardaman, Jr. – in: Mori Ōgai. Youth and Other Stories. Edited by J. Thomas Rimer, Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press 1994 (Shaps Library of Translations): 197–210.