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Monumenta Nipponica Volume 33, Number 4 (1978)- MN 33:4 (1978) 379–405Methods of Land Transfer in Medieval JapanJames Kanda
- MN 33:4 (1978) 407–39My Mother is Dying’: Saitō Mokichi’s ‘Shinitamau Haha’Amy Vladeck Heinrich
- MN 33:4 (1978) 413–39Shinitamau Haha’ (My Mother is Dying)Mokichi Saitō, Translated by Amy Vladeck Heinrich
- MN 33:4 (1978) 441–59The Noh as Popular Theater: Miyamasu’s Youchi SogaLaurence R. Kominz
- MN 33:4 (1978) 447–59Youchi SogaMiyamasu, Translated by Laurence R. Kominz
- MN 33:4 (1978) 461–69Sōseki: A Tragic FatherYoko McClain
- MN 33:4 (1978) 471–73From Court to Capital: A Tentative Interpretation of the Origins of the Japanese Urban Tradition by Paul Wheatley, Thomas SeeJ. Edward Kidder, Jr.
- MN 33:4 (1978) 473–76Biographical Dictionary of Japanese History by Seiichi Iwao, Burton WatsonJohn Whitney Hall
- MN 33:4 (1978) 476–79Ox Against the Storm. A Biography of Tanaka Shozo: Japan’s Conservationist Pioneer by Kenneth StrongF. G. Notehelfer
- MN 33:4 (1978) 479–81Sanuki no Suke Nikki. A Translation of the Emperor Horikawa Diary by Jennifer BrewsterKaren Brazell
- MN 33:4 (1978) 482–88The Legend of Semimaru, Blind Musician of Japan by Susan MatisoffD. E. Mills
- MN 33:4 (1978) 489–91In Praise of Shadows by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, Thomas J. Harper, Edward G. Seidensticker, Charles MoorePaul McCarthy
- MN 33:4 (1978) 492–93Howling at the Moon, Poems of Hagiwara Sakutarō by Hiroaki SatoJ. Thomas Rimer
- MN 33:4 (1978) 493–94The Voices and Hands of Bunraku by Barbara AdachiThomas Immoos
- MN 33:4 (1978) 495Japanese Design Through Textile Patterns by Frances BlakemoreMary Helen Mine
- MN 33:4 (1978) 497–500Nagasaki Prints and Early Copperplates by Masanobu Hosono, Lloyd R. CraighillCal French
- MN 33:4 (1978) 500–502The History of Japanese Printing and Book Illustration by David ChibbettDavid Waterhouse
- MN 33:4 (1978) 502–504The Constitutional Case Law of Japan. Selected Supreme Court Decisions 1961–70 by Hiroshi Itoh, Lawrence Ward BeerThomas L. Blakemore
- MN 33:4 (1978) 504–505Shikinaisha Chōsa Hōkoku XXIV: Saikaidō by Shikinaisha KenkyūkaiFelicia Gressitt Bock
- MN 33:4 (1978) 505Recent Reprints