Monumenta Nipponica Volume 34, Number 4, 1979
MN 34:4 (1979) 383–407The Bakufu Looks Abroad: The 1865 Mission to FranceMark D. Ericson- MN 34:4 (1979) 409–47Cinderella and the Jesuits: An Otogizōshi Cycle as Christian LiteratureChieko Irie Mulhern
- MN 34:4 (1979) 449–65Images of Exile and Pilgrimage: Zeami’s KintōshoSusan Matisoff
- MN 34:4 (1979) 467–78Councillor Defended: Matsukage Nikki and Yanagisawa YoshiyasuBeatrice Bodart-Bailey
- MN 34:4 (1979) 479–88The Place of Gukanshō in Japanese Intellectual HistoryH. Paul Varley
- MN 34:4 (1979) 489–92Japanese Linked Verse. An Account with Translations of Renga and Haikai Sequences by Earl MinerPhillip T. Harries
- MN 34:4 (1979) 492–94The Search for Authenticity in Modern Japanese Literature by Hisaaki YamanouchiKinya Tsuruta
- MN 34:4 (1979) 495–97Song, Dance, Storytelling. Aspects of the Performing Arts in Japan by Frank HoffMark Morris
- MN 34:4 (1979) 497–98Songs of Gods, Songs of Humans: The Epic Tradition of the Ainu by Donald L. PhilippiMarian Ury
- MN 34:4 (1979) 498–501Modern Japanese Drama. An Anthology by Ted T. TakayaBrian Powell
- MN 34:4 (1979) 501–504A Grammar of Classical Japanese by Akira KomaiBart Mathias
- MN 34:4 (1979) 504–505Giving Up the Gun. Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543–1879 by Noel PerrinDavid Waterhouse
- MN 34:4 (1979) 506–507Patterns of Japanese Policymaking. Experiences from Higher Education by T. J. PempelEdward R. Beauchamp
- MN 34:4 (1979) 507–509Japanese Art: A Cultural Appreciation by Saburo Ienaga, Richard L. GagePenelope E. Mason
- MN 34:4 (1979) 510Evolving Techniques in Japanese Woodblock Prints by Gaston Petit, Amadio ArboledaOliver Statler
- MN 34:4 (1979) 511–513Six Lives, Six Deaths. Portraits from Modern Japan by Robert Jay Lifton, Shūichi Katō, Michael R. ReichChristie W. Kiefer
- MN 34:4 (1979) 513–514Modern Japanese Literature in Translation: A Bibliography by International House of Japan LibraryMichael Cooper
- MN 34:4 (1979) 515Recent Reprints