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MN 79:1 (2024) 1–31Revisiting The Soil: Nagatsuka Takashi, Rural Japan, and the Limits of the Meiji NovelTyler Walker
MN 79:1 (2024) 33–82Overcoming Modernity, Exonerating Empire: Yoshimitsu Yoshihiko and the Ironies of Early Shōwa CatholicismChristopher T. Lough
MN 78:2 (2023) 157–87Before the Storm: A Transrealm History of the Decades Leading Up to the First Mongol Invasion of JapanLina Nie
MN 78:2 (2023) 189–221Traces of Truth: Chūgan Engetsu’s KonhōronBrendan Arkell Morley
MN 78:1 (2023) 1–89Timeless Todays in a Changing World: A Translation of Fujiwara no Nobuzane’s Ima monogatariErin L. Brightwell
MN 77:2 (2022) 207–58Neither Plagiarism nor Patchwork: The Culture of Citation and the Making of Authorship in Medieval Japanese PoetryPier Carlo Tommasi
MN 77:2 (2022) 259–94The Self-Fashioning of E. S. Morse: A Comparison of Japan Day by Day and Its Primary SourceHina Hirayama
MN 77:2 (2022) 295–314A New Japanese-German DictionaryIrmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
MN 77:1 (2022) 1–26Versifying for Others: Akazome Emon’s Proxy PoemsTakeshi Watanabe
MN 77:1 (2022) 27–75Jesuit Printing and Hiragana BooksTakahiro Sasaki
MN 77:1 (2022) 77–107Sacred Noh at Kanda MyōjinGerald Groemer
MN 76:2 (2021) 249–90Nihongi Banquet Poetry: Rewriting Japanese Myth in VerseMatthieu Felt
MN 76:2 (2021) 291–328Edo Castle as a Consumer: Procuring Fish for the Shogun’s TableYūjirō Ōguchi
MN 76:2 (2021) 329–61The Small Vehicle: The Construction of Hinayana and Japan’s Modern BuddhismStephan Kigensan Licha
MN 76:1 (2021) 1–68The Tragedy of Quabacondono: An Elizabethan Account of the Last Days of Toyotomi HidetsugiLiam Matthew Brockey and Jurgis Saulius Algirdas Elisonas
MN 76:1 (2021) 69–115Nihon Gaishi Goes Global: A Translation History of a Nineteenth-Century BlockbusterRobert Tuck
MN 76:1 (2021) 117–62A Pernicious Gang: Ōshio Chūsai and the Prosecution of Heretics in Late Tokugawa JapanJames McMullen
MN 75:2 (2020) 205–39Visualizing Hungry Ghosts in Heian Japan: Gakizōshi Scrolls as “Translation”Haruko Wakabayashi
MN 75:2 (2020) 241–79An Entrepreneurial Aristocrat: Matsugi Hisanao and the Forging of Imperial Service in Late Medieval JapanPaula R. Curtis
MN 75:2 (2020) 281–315Childbirth in Japan circa 1700: Gleanings from the Diary of Yamamoto HeizaemonMichael Burtscher and Fuyuhiko Yokota
MN 75:1 (2020) 1–44A Format of Their Own: The Hundred-Poem Sequences of Sone no Yoshitada, Minamoto no Shitagō, and the Priest EgyōRoselee Bundy
MN 75:1 (2020) 45–89The Author as Protagonist: Professionalizing the Craft of the Kusazōshi WriterDavid C. Atherton
MN 75:1 (2020) 91–122The Massacre of Koreans in Yokohama in the Aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923Kenji Hasegawa
MN 74:2 (2019) 173–209How to Establish a Poetic School in Early Medieval Japan: Fujiwara no Shunzei’s Man’yōshū JidaikōMalgorzata Karolina Citko
MN 74:2 (2019) 211–48Casting Spells: Combat Charms and Secret Scrolls in the Warrior Fiction of Late Medieval JapanR. Keller Kimbrough
MN 74:1 (2019) 59–84The Poetics of Nativism: Motoori Norinaga and the Sacralization of Japanese LiteratureEmi Foulk Bushelle
MN 74:1 (2019) 33–57War without Blood? The Literary Uses of a Taboo Fluid in Heike MonogatariVyjayanthi R. Selinger
MN 74:1 (2019) 1–32Unearthing Lost Memories: A Reexamination of the Role of Naniwa in Early JapanJoshua Frydman
MN 73:2 (2018) 187–212Why Were There No Severe Famines in Fourteenth-Century Japan? Social Change, Resilience, and Climatic CoolingKeisuke Itō and Paula R. Curtis
MN 73:2 (2018) 213–44Female Shrine Priests and Doctrinal Instructors in the Early Meiji Moral Edification CampaignMichael Burtscher and Mika Odaira
MN 73:1 (2018) 1–26Measuring Feeling as Theory of Literature: Romanticism and the Performance of Genre in Natsume Sōseki’s Kusamakura and Critical WritingsDaniel Poch
MN 73:1 (2018) 27–85The Aestheticization of Korean Suffering in the Colonial Period: A Translation of Yanagi Sōetsu’s Chōsen no BijutsuPenny Bailey
MN 72:2 (2017) 153–87Cultural Knowledge and Professional Training in the Poetic Treatises of Late Heian JapanAriel Stilerman
MN 72:2 (2017) 189–222Illustrated Debate over Wine and Rice (Shuhanron Emaki) : Dining and Socializing in Late Muromachi JapanCharlotte von Verschuer
MN 72:1 (2017) 1–30Shifting Perspectives on the Shogunate’s Last Years: Gountei Sadahide’s Bird’s-Eye View Landscape PrintsFumiko Sugimoto and Michael Burtscher
MN 72:1 (2017) 31–70A Parody in the Ruins: A Translation of Irisawa Yasuo’s Waga Izumo, Waga Chinkon (Part 1)Scott Mehl
MN 71:2 (2016) 263–93Mothers of the Buddhas: The Sutra on Transforming Women into Buddhas (Bussetsu Tennyo Jōbutsu Kyō) Heather Blair
MN 71:1 (2016) 1–42Readings from the Bamboo Grove: A Translation of Sōgi’s Oi no Susami (Part 1)Steven D. Carter
MN 71:1 (2016) 43–82Sedge-Hat Madness: A Translation of Chikamatsu Monzaemon’s Onatsu Seijūrō Gojūnenki Uta NenbutsuMichael C. Brownstein
MN 71:1 (2016) 83–117Orthodox Finance and “The Dictates of Practical Expediency”: Influences on Matsukata Masayoshi and the Financial Reform of 1881–1885Steven J. Ericson
MN 70:2 (2015) 189–235Yoshino and the Politics of Cultural Topography in Early JapanTorquil Duthie
MN 70:2 (2015) 237–83104 Voices from Christian Nagasaki: Document of the Rosario Brotherhood of Nagasaki with the Signatures of Its Members (February 1622) : An Analysis and TranslationReinier H. Hesselink
MN 70:1 (2015) 1–38Disaster in the Making: Taira no Kiyomori’s Move of the Capital to FukuharaHaruko Wakabayashi
MN 70:1 (2015) 39–81Warrior/Monk, Demon/Saint: Humor and Parody in the Late Medieval Tale of BenkeiRoberta Strippoli
MN 70:1 (2015) 83–122Shipwrecks and Flotsam: The Foreign World in Edo-Period TosaLuke S. Roberts
MN 69:2 (2014) 153–219Localizing Strategies: Eison and the Shōtoku Taishi CultDavid Quinter
MN 69:2 (2014) 221–54Japan’s Inca Boom: Global Archaeology and the Making of a Postwar NationMiriam L. Kingsberg Kadia
MN 69:1 (2014) 1–54A Medieval Warrior in Early Modern Japan: A Translation of the Otogizōshi Hōgan Miyako BanashiMathew W. Thompson

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