Monumenta Nipponica Volume 36, Number 4, 1981
MN 36:4 (1981) 367–90Before Rikyū: Religious and Aesthetic Influences in the Early History of the Tea CeremonyTheodore M. Ludwig- MN 36:4 (1981) 391–423The Yamagata-Tokutomi Correspondence: Press and Politics in Meiji-Taishō JapanGeorge Akita and Takashi Itō
- MN 36:4 (1981) 425–44Waka in the Age of RengaSteven D. Carter
- MN 36:4 (1981) 445–61The Reizei Family DocumentsRobert H. Brower
- MN 36:4 (1981) 463–68Zen in Medieval JapanH. Paul Varley
- MN 36:4 (1981) 469–72Ōkagami, The Great Mirror: Fujiwara Michinaga (966–1027) and His Times by Helen Craig McCulloughSusan Matisoff
- MN 36:4 (1981) 472–74Rebellion and Democracy in Meiji Japan: A Study of Commoners in the Popular Rights Movement by Roger W. BowenStephen Vlastos
- MN 36:4 (1981) 475Kaga: A Domain Which Changed Slowly by Robert G. Flershem, Yoshiko N. FlershemH. J. Jones
- MN 36:4 (1981) 476–79The Chinese and the Japanese: Essays in Political and Cultural Interactions by Akira IriyeLinda Grove
- MN 36:4 (1981) 479–82Education and Equality in Japan by William K. CummingsJohn Singleton
- MN 36:4 (1981) 482–83Nichiren: Selected Writings by Laurel Rasplica RoddDavid W. Chappell
- MN 36:4 (1981) 484–85Notes on Once-calling and Many-calling: A Translation of Shinran’s Ichinen-tanen mon’i by Yoshifumi UedaPaul O. Ingram
- MN 36:4 (1981) 485–86East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan: Varieties of Medical Experience by Margaret M. LockArthur Kleinman