Monumenta Nipponica Volume 38, Number 2, 1983
MN 38:2 (1983) 115–32Toward Simplicity: Script Reform Movements in the Meiji PeriodNanette Twine- MN 38:2 (1983) 133–62The Blue-Eyed Storyteller: Henry Black and His Rakugo CareerMorioka Heinz and Miyoko Sasaki
- MN 38:2 (1983) 163–74Puccini Among the Puppets: Madame Butterfly on the Japanese Puppet StageStanleigh H. Jones
- MN 38:2 (1983) 175–89The Real MurasakiMarian Ury
- MN 38:2 (1983) 191–205Marginalia: The Expanse and the Limits of a New AnthologyWilliam R. LaFleur
- MN 38:2 (1983) 207–209Konjaku Monogatari-shū by W. Michael KelseySusan Downing Videen
- MN 38:2 (1983) 209–10Ukifune: Love in The Tale of Genji by Andrew PekarikRichard Bowring
- MN 38:2 (1983) 211–12The Little Treasury of One Hundred People, One Poem Each by Fujiwara no Sadaie, Tom GaltPhillip T. Harries
- MN 38:2 (1983) 213–14The Formation of the Early Meiji Legal Order: The Japanese Code of 1871 and Its Chinese Foundation by Paul Heng-chao Ch’enJames B. Leavell
- MN 38:2 (1983) 214–16Germany and the Far Eastern Crisis, 1931–1938: A Study in Diplomacy and Ideology by John P. FoxGerhard Krebs
- MN 38:2 (1983) 216–19The Musical Structure of Nō by Akira Tamba, Patricia MatoréMark J. Nearman
- MN 38:2 (1983) 220Doctoral Dissertations on Japan and Korea, 1969–1979: An Annotated Bibliography of Studies in Western Languages by Frank Joseph ShulmanMichael Cooper