芭蕉300句：言葉の壁を破る英訳チャレンジ （６）

Basho’s Haiku in English  (7/300)

   

・春なれや名もなき山の朝がすみ　（７）

 harunareya namonakiyamano asagasumi

  

(A) Translation by L.P. Lovee

 the spring, now_

 on the unnamed mountain

 morning mists

   

(B) Translation by John White & Kemmyo Taira Sato

 the spring has arrived;

 on the hill that has no name

 there is morning mist

 

(C) Cited from an internet site (jeffThompson/BashoHaiku.txt) 

 Spring!

A nameless hill

in the haze.

  

(D) Cited from an internet site (jeffThompson / BashoHaiku.txt )  

  it is spring!

  a hill without a name

  in thin haze

  

Which one do you like best among the above translations?