Monumenta Nipponica Volume 34, Number 1, 1979
MN 34:1 (1979) 1–20Tales of Samurai Honor: Saikaku’s Buke Giri MonogatariCaryl Callahan- MN 34:1 (1979) 7–20Buke Giri MonogatariIhara Saikaku, Translated by Caryl Callahan
- MN 34:1 (1979) 21–48Sōseki on Individualism: ‘Watakushi no Kojinshugi’Jay Rubin
- MN 34:1 (1979) 26–48Watakushi no Kojinshugi (My Individualism)Natsume Sōseki, Translated by Jay Rubin
- MN 34:1 (1979) 49–72The Way of the King: An Early Meiji Essay on GovernmentRichard Devine
- MN 34:1 (1979) 63–72Ōdōron (The Way of the King)Takasaburō Chiba, Translated by Richard Devine
- MN 34:1 (1979) 73–99Ōyama Estate and Insei Land PoliciesElizabeth Sato
- MN 34:1 (1979) 101–12Michinaga’s Maladies: A Medical Report on Fujiwara no MichinagaG. Cameron Hurst
- MN 34:1 (1979) 113–15Ryōkan: Zen Monk-Poet of Japan by Burton WatsonMarian Ury
- MN 34:1 (1979) 115–17Economic and Demographic Change in Preindustrial Japan, 1600–1868 by Susan B. Hanley, Kozo YamamuraWilliam B. Hauser
- MN 34:1 (1979) 118–19The Diplomacy of Japan, 1894–1922. Volume II: Anglo-Japanese Alliance and Russo-Japanese War by Morinosuke KajimaPeter Lowe
- MN 34:1 (1979) 119–21Historia de Japam by Luis Fróis, Josef WickiMichael Cooper
- MN 34:1 (1979) 121–22Kurusu. The Price of Progress in a Japanese Village, 1951–1975 by Robert J. SmithMitsuru Shimpo
- MN 34:1 (1979) 123–24Bugaku Masks by Kyōtarō Nishikawa, Monica BetheGunhild Gabbert