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Monumenta Nipponica Volume 33, Number 2 (1978)- MN 33:2 (1978) 119–49Three Poets at Yuyama: Sōgi and Yuyama Sangin Hyakuin, 1491 (Part 1)Steven D. Carter
- MN 33:2 (1978) 151–64The Kansei Reforms—Success or Failure?Isao Soranaka
- MN 33:2 (1978) 165–78Metamorphosis of a Deity: The Image of Hachiman in Yumi YawataRoss Bender
- MN 33:2 (1978) 179–200Jizō, the Most Merciful: Tales from Jizō Bosatsu ReigenkiYoshiko Kurata Dykstra
- MN 33:2 (1978) 201–205Gozan Literature: The Practice of Zen and the Pursuit of PoetryMartin Collcutt
- MN 33:2 (1978) 207–14Japanese Prints Through Western EyesDavid Waterhouse
- MN 33:2 (1978) 215–16Sanshiro, A Novel by Natsume Sōseki, Jay RubinAlan Turney
- MN 33:2 (1978) 216–18The Burning Heart: Women Poets of Japan by Kenneth Rexroth, Ikuko AtsumiLeon M. Zolbrod
- MN 33:2 (1978) 218–20The Historical Literature of Mori Ōgai by David Dilworth, J. Thomas Rimer. Volume I: The Incident at Sakai and Other Stories; Volume II: Saiki Kōi and Other StoriesJames T. Araki
- MN 33:2 (1978) 221–22Contemporary Japanese Literature. An Anthology of Fiction, Film, and Other Writing Since 1945 by Howard HibbettBrian Powell
- MN 33:2 (1978) 222–23Japanese Foreign Policy, 1869–1942. Kasumigaseki to Miyakezaka by Ian NishGeorge Macklin Wilson
- MN 33:2 (1978) 224–26The Anatomy of a Small War: The Soviet-Japanese Struggle for Changkufeng/Khasan, 1938 by Alvin D. CooxJohn Hunter Boyle
- MN 33:2 (1978) 226–27Japanese-Trained Armies in Southeast Asia: Independence and Volunteer Forces in World War II by Joyce C. LebraAlvin D. Coox
- MN 33:2 (1978) 227–28Japanese Landlords: The Decline of a Rural Elite by Ann WaswoThomas R. H. Havens
- MN 33:2 (1978) 229–30Pure Land Buddhist Painting by Jōji Okazaki, Elizabeth ten GrotenhuisAlfred Bloom
- MN 33:2 (1978) 231–32Momoyama Decorative Painting by Tsugiyoshi Doi, Edna B. Crawford; Kanō Eitoku by Tsuneo Takeda, H. Mack Horton, Catherine KaputaFred H. Martinson
- MN 33:2 (1978) 232–34Japanese Portrait Sculpture by Hisashi Mōri, W. Chië IshibashiE. Dale Saunders
- MN 33:2 (1978) 234–37The Japanese Language in Contemporary Japan. Some Sociolinguistic Observations by Roy Andrew MillerMasanori Higa
- MN 33:2 (1978) 237–39Nihon Shoseki Sōmokuroku, ’77–’78. Set of two volumes. Shomei, Sakuin by Nihon Shoseki Shuppan Kyōkai; Doctoral Dissertations on Asia. An Annotated Bibliographical Journal of Current International Research. Vol. 2, No. 1 & 2 by Frank Joseph ShulmanMichael Cooper