Kokoro

Japanese true first (Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo, 1914). The census claim that the first complete English is Regnery, Chicago 1957 is NOT confirmed and is likely wrong: an English Kokoro translated by Ineko Sato (later Kondo) appeared in Tokyo in 1941 and was reviewed in Studies in English Literature in April 1942. Sources conflict on its publisher — the contemporaneous 1942 review gives Hokuseido, Tokyo, while Wikipedia gives Kenkyusha — and no source consulted establishes whether it is complete or abridged; a Castalia Library survey of the translations states outright that the 1941 text is effectively unseen. Edwin McClellan's translation (Henry Regnery Company, Chicago, 1957) is the first Western-published English edition and the one collected in the West: vi + 248 pp., blue cloth with a red title band and gilt spine lettering, in a white jacket with pale blue and black titles designed by Renee Walkoe; look for an unclipped jacket with the price present at the flap. UK precedence against the 1957 Regnery was not established.