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MN 40:2 (1985) 127–46Lord Tamekane’s Notes on Poetry: Tamekanekyō Wakashō —82Robert N. Huey and Susan Matisoff- MN 40:2 (1985) 133–46Lord Tamekane’s Notes on Poetry: Tamekanekyō WakashōTamekanekyō, Translated by Robert N. Huey and Susan Matisoff
- MN 40:2 (1985) 147–62That ‘Howling’ Music: Japanese Hōgaku in Contrast to Western Art MusicBritten Dean
- MN 40:2 (1985) 163–89The Laws of CompassionBeatrice Bodart-Bailey
- MN 40:2 (1985) 191–208The Inversion of Progress: Taoka Reiun’s HibunmeironRonald P. Loftus
- MN 40:2 (1985) 209–19Yamadadera: Excavations 1984Mary Neighbour Parent
- MN 40:2 (1985) 221–23Confucianism and Tokugawa Culture by Peter NoscoBob Tadashi Wakabayashi
- MN 40:2 (1985) 223–24Ogyū Sorai’s Journey to Kai in 1706, with a Translation of the Kyōchūkikō by Olof G. LidinRonald P. Toby
- MN 40:2 (1985) 225–27Japan’s Local Pragmatists: The Transition from Bakumatsu to Meiji in the Kawasaki Region by Neil L. WatersD. Eleanor Westney
- MN 40:2 (1985) 227–30The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895–1945 by Ramon H. Myers, Mark R. PeattieC. I. Eugene Kim
- MN 40:2 (1985) 231–32The China Quagmire: Japan’s Expansion on the Asian Continent, 1933–1941 by James William MorleyLinda Grove
- MN 40:2 (1985) 233–34Japans Deutschlandpolitik 1935–1941: Eine Studie zur Vorgeschichte des Pazifischen Krieges by Gerhard KrebsFrank W. Iklé
- MN 40:2 (1985) 234–35Japanese History: A Guide to Survey Histories, Part I: By Period by Naomi FukudaM. William Steele
- MN 40:2 (1985) 235–38Heritage of Endurance: Family Patterns and Delinquency Formation in Urban Japan by Hiroshi Wagatsuma, George A. De VosRonald Dore
- MN 40:2 (1985) 238–41Conflict in Japan by Ellis S. Krauss, Thomas P. Rohlen, Patricia G. SteinhoffSusan B. Hanley
- MN 40:2 (1985) 241–43Japanese Women: Constraint and Fulfillment by Takie Sugiyama LebraH. J. Jones
- MN 40:2 (1985) 243–44Old Age in Japan: An Annotated Bibliography of Western-Language Materials by Sepp Linhart, Fleur WössMichael Cooper
- MN 40:2 (1985) 245–46Facing Two Ways: The Story of My Life by Baroness Shidzue Ishimoto, Barbara MolonyTakie Sugiyama Lebra
- MN 40:2 (1985) 246–47Smaller Is Better: Japan’s Mastery of the Miniature by O-Young Lee, Robert N. HueyJames Abrams
- MN 40:2 (1985) 247–48Kabuki, Holzschnitt, Japonismus: Japonica in der Theatersammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek by Thomas Leims, Ilse Chlan, Leopoldine PavlicekDetlef Schauwecker
- MN 40:2 (1985) 248–49Shogun: The Shogun Age Exhibition by Shogun Age Exhibition CommitteeChristine Guth Kanda
- MN 40:2 (1985) 250–51Ansätze modernen Denkens in den Religionen Japans by Hajime Nakamura; Beihefte der Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte by Siegfried Schultz, Anke Schomaker-HuettArcadio Schwade
- MN 40:2 (1985) 251–53Miraculous Tales of the Lotus Sutra from Ancient Japan: The Dainihonkoku Hokekyōkenki of Priest Chingen by Yoshiko K. DykstraMargaret H. Childs
- MN 40:2 (1985) 253–55A Dictionary of Japanese Buddhist Terms by Hisao Inagaki, P. G. O’NeillGeorge J. Tanabe
MN 40:1 (1985) 1–37Musical Instruction in Meiji Education: A Study of Adaptation and AssimilationUry Eppstein- MN 40:1 (1985) 39–67The Danka SystemKenneth A. Marcure
- MN 40:1 (1985) 69–96Forging the Past: Medieval Counterfeit DocumentsHitomi Tonomura
- MN 40:1 (1985) 97–106CorrespondenceHerman Ooms and Joyce Ackroyd
- MN 40:1 (1985) 107–10Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era by Donald KeeneMakoto Ueda
- MN 40:1 (1985) 110–13Tanrokubon: Rare Books of Seventeenth Century Japan by Kogorō Yoshida, Ryūshin Matsumoto, Mark A. HarbisonK. B. Gardner
- MN 40:1 (1985) 113–15Retreat from Reform: Patterns of Political Behavior in Interwar Japan by Sharon MinichielloBen-Ami Shillony
- MN 40:1 (1985) 115–18Dialektik der absoluten Vemittlung: Hajime Tanabes Religionsphilosophie als Beitrag zum ‘Wettstreit der Liebe’ zwischen Buddhismus und Christentum by Johannes LaubeJames W. Heisig
- MN 40:1 (1985) 118–20Lay Buddhism in Contemporary Japan: Reiyūkai Kyōdan by Helen HardacreRobert Ellwood
- MN 40:1 (1985) 120–22Japanese Papermaking: Tradition, Tools, and Techniques by Timothy BarrettSukey Hughes
- MN 40:1 (1985) 122–26Saibara: Japanese Court Songs of the Heian Period by Elizabeth J. MarkhamSteven G. Nelson
MN 39:4 (1984) 371–92Peripheries: Rural Culture in Tokugawa JapanAnne Walthall- MN 39:4 (1984) 393–407The Lotus Lectures: Hokke Hakkō in the Heian PeriodWilla Jane Tanabe
- MN 39:4 (1984) 409–34Mumyōzōshi (Part 3)Translated by Michele Marra
- MN 39:4 (1984) 435–43Dialect in Tanizaki’s ShunkinshōWard Geddes
- MN 39:4 (1984) 445–52The National Noh TheaterJanet E. Goff
- MN 39:4 (1984) 453Ariyoshi Sawako, 1931–1984
- MN 39:4 (1984) 455–57The Changelings: A Classical Japanese Court Tale by Rosette F. WilligThomas J. Harper
- MN 39:4 (1984) 457–59Dazai Osamu: Selected Stories and Sketches by James O’BrienDavid J. Brudnoy
- MN 39:4 (1984) 459–63State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu by Ronald P. TobyJohn Whitney Hall
- MN 39:4 (1984) 463–64History in the Service of the Japanese Nation by John S. BrownleeGrant K. Goodman
- MN 39:4 (1984) 464–66The Justice of the Western Consular Courts in Nineteenth Century Japan by Richard T. ChangJ. E. Hoare
- MN 39:4 (1984) 467–68Kodō Zuroku: Illustrated Book on the Smelting of Copper by Masuda Tsuna, Cyril Stanley SmithJames R. Bartholomew
- MN 39:4 (1984) 468–70Politics and Sinology: The Case of Naitō Konan (1866–1934) by Joshua A. FogelSharon H. Nolte