Monumenta Nipponica Volume 36, Number 2, 1981
MN 36:2 (1981) 113–31Experiment and Tradition: New Plays in the Bunraku TheatreStanleigh H. Jones- MN 36:2 (1981) 133–72The Lost Poetic Sequence of the Priest ManzeiRoy Andrew Miller
- MN 36:2 (1981) 173–86Apologia pro Vita Sua: Arai Hakuseki’s AutobiographyKate Wildman-Nakai
- MN 36:2 (1981) 187–93Public Official or Feudal Lord?Mary Elizabeth Berry
- MN 36:2 (1981) 195–200A Splendor of ScholarshipEdward Seidensticker
- MN 36:2 (1981) 201–202Collection de sable et de pierres: Shasekishū par Ichien Mujū by Hartmut O. RotermundRobert E. Morrell
- MN 36:2 (1981) 202–205Yokomitsu Riichi: Modernist by Dennis KeeneValdo H. Viglielmo
- MN 36:2 (1981) 206–208A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa by H. Paul VarleyJohn S. Brownlee
- MN 36:2 (1981) 208–10Tokutomi Sohō, 1863–1957: A Journalist for Modern Japan by John D. PiersonJames L. Huffman
- MN 36:2 (1981) 210–12Intellectual Change and Political Development in Early Modern Japan: Ono Azusa, A Case Study by Sandra T. W. DavisThomas R. H. Havens
- MN 36:2 (1981) 212–14The Fateful Choice: Japan’s Advance into Southeast Asia, 1938–1941. Selected translations from Taiheiyō sensō e no michi: kaisen gaikō shi by James William MorleyJoyce C. Lebra
- MN 36:2 (1981) 214–16The 1942 Japanese General Election: Political Mobilization in Wartime Japan by Edward J. DreaGordon Mark Berger
- MN 36:2 (1981) 216–19The Art of Hokusai in Book Illustration by Jack HillierKenneth Gardner
- MN 36:2 (1981) 219–21Japanese Lacquer, 1600–1900: Selections from the Charles A. Greenfield Collection by Andrew J. PekarikRaymond Bushell
- MN 36:2 (1981) 221–22Early Buddhist Architecture in Japan by Kakichi Suzuki, Mary Neighbour Parent, Nancy Shatzman SteinhardtJ. Edward Kidder, Jr.
- MN 36:2 (1981) 223–25Long Engagements: Maturity in Modern Japan by David W. PlathFelix Moos
- MN 36:2 (1981) 225–27Rural Society in Japan by Tadashi Fukutake, The Japan InterpreterEdward Norbeck
- MN 36:2 (1981) 227–28Noguchi and His Patrons by Isabel R. PlessetMargaret Lock
- MN 36:2 (1981) 229–31Geography of Japan by The Association of Japanese GeographersDavid H. Kornhauser
- MN 36:2 (1981) 232–33Mountain Tasting: Zen Haiku by Santōka Taneda by John StevensJames Abrams