What is the best translation of Kokoro?

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For most readers, the Meredith McKinney translation (2010) of Kokoro is the best place to start: Meredith McKinney's 2010 Penguin translation is the one I'd start with — clear, natural modern English that still carries Sōseki's quiet melancholy. It reads easily for a contemporary reader without flattening the book's restraint, and it comes with a helpful introduction. This is where I'd start. For the classic, consider Edwin McClellan (1957).

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