Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
Monumenta Nipponica Volume 38, Number 4 (1983)- MN 38:4 (1983) 359–75The Informing Image: ‘China’ in Genji MonogatariDavid Pollack
- MN 38:4 (1983) 377–86James I and JapanDerek Massarella
- MN 38:4 (1983) 387–407Ya no Ne: The Genesis of a Kabuki Aragoto ClassicLaurence R. Kominz
- MN 38:4 (1983) 401–407Ya no NeTranslated by Laurence R. Kominz
- MN 38:4 (1983) 409–12Kōbō Daishi and the Art of Esoteric BuddhismGeorge J. Tanabe
- MN 38:4 (1983) 413–27CorrespondenceLuis O. Gómez, Yoshifumi Ueda and Dennis Hirota
- MN 38:4 (1983) 429–31A Tale of Eleventh-Century Japan: Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari by Thomas H. RohlichCarol Hochstedler
- MN 38:4 (1983) 431–33Ueda Akinari by Blake Morgan YoungAnthony H. Chambers
- MN 38:4 (1983) 434–36The Essence of the Novel by Tsubouchi Shōyō, Nanette TwineRobert Rolf
- MN 38:4 (1983) 436–37Pagoda, Skull and Sumurai: Three Stories by Kōda Rohan by Chieko Irie MulhernGretchen Evans
- MN 38:4 (1983) 437–40Approaches to the Modern Japanese Short Story by Thomas E. Swann, Kinya TsurutaVan C. Gessel
- MN 38:4 (1983) 440–42One Hundred Frogs: From Rengu to Haiku in English by Hiroaki SatoEri F. Yasuhara
- MN 38:4 (1983) 442–45This Kind of Woman: Ten Stories by Japanese Women Writers, 1960–1976 by Yukiko Tanaka, Elizabeth Hanson; Stories by Contemporary Japanese Women Writers by Noriko Mizuta Lippit, Kyoko Iriye SeldenYoko McClain
- MN 38:4 (1983) 445–46Chronicle of My Mother by Yasushi Inoue, Jean Oda MoyMarian Ury
- MN 38:4 (1983) 446–50Historia de Japam. by Luis Fróis, José Wicki; Francis Xavier: His Life, His Times by Georg Schurhammer, M. Joseph CostelloeMichael Cooper
- MN 38:4 (1983) 451–53Hideyoshi by Mary Elizabeth BerryHarold Bolitho
- MN 38:4 (1983) 454–58Private Academies of Tokugawa Japan by Richard RubingerRobert M. Spaulding
- MN 38:4 (1983) 458–59The Revolutionary Origins of Modern Japan by Thomas M. HuberHilary Conroy
- MN 38:4 (1983) 460–62Konoe Fumimaro: A Political Biography by Yoshitake Oka, Shumpei Okamoto, Patricia MurrayBen-Ami Shillony
- MN 38:4 (1983) 462–65Emperor Hirohito and His Chief Aide-de-Camp: The Honjō Diary, 1933–36 by Mikiso HaneDavid A. Titus
- MN 38:4 (1983) 465–66Irrigation Management in Japan: A Critical Review of Japanese Social Science Research by William W. Kelly; Water Control in Tokugawa Japan: Irrigation Organization in a Japanese River Basin, 1600–1870 by William W. KellyDavid H. Kornhauser
- MN 38:4 (1983) 467–69Das ‘Selbst’ in Mahāyāna-Buddhismus in Japanischer Sicht und die ‘Person’ im Christentum im Licht des Neuen Testaments by Masumi ShimizuJan Van Bragt
- MN 38:4 (1983) 469–71Refining Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment by Zen Master Dōgen, Kōshō Uchiyama, Thomas WrightJohn C. Maraldo
- MN 38:4 (1983) 472–73Zum Verhältnis von Staat und Shinto im heutigen Japan: Eine Materialsammlung by Ernst LokowandtFelix Moos
- MN 38:4 (1983) 473–74The New Religions of Japan: A Bibliography of Western-Language Materials by H. Byron EarhartHelen Hardacre
- MN 38:4 (1983) 474–77Japanese Lacquer Art: Modern Masterpieces by The National Museum of Modern Art, Richard L. GageAnn Yonemura
- MN 38:4 (1983) 477–79Essays on Japanese Art Presented to Jack Hillier by Matthi ForrerCal French
- MN 38:4 (1983) 479–81Japan-Handbuch by Horst Hammitzsch, Lydia Brüll, Ulrich GochWerner Schaumann