Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
Monumenta Nipponica Volume 39, Number 1 (1984)- MN 39:1 (1984) 1–10Land-Use Patterns and Afforestation in the Edo PeriodConrad Totman
- MN 39:1 (1984) 11–24Between Tradition and Modernity: Labor and the Ashio Copper MineF. G. Notehelfer
- MN 39:1 (1984) 25–54Journal of My Father’s Last Days: Issa’s Chichi no Shūen NikkiRobert N. Huey
- MN 39:1 (1984) 55–81Japan Discovers Australia: The Emergence of Australia in the Japanese World-View, 1540s–1900Henry Frei
- MN 39:1 (1984) 83–87The M. O. A. Museum of ArtWilla Jane Tanabe
- MN 39:1 (1984) 89CorrespondenceThomas R. H. Havens
- MN 39:1 (1984) 91–94Fragments of Rainbows: The Life and Poetry of Saitō Mokichi, 1882–1953 by Amy Vladeck HeinrichJanine Beichman-Yamamoto
- MN 39:1 (1984) 94–97Selbstentblössungsrituale: Zur Theorie und Geschichte der autobiographischen Gattung ‘Shishōsetsu’ in der modernen japanischen Literatur by Irmela Hijiya-KirschnereitBarbara Yoshida-Krafft
- MN 39:1 (1984) 97–98Tengu Child: Stories by Kikuo Itaya by John Gardner, Nobuko TsukuiYoshiko Kurata Dykstra
- MN 39:1 (1984) 98–101Jinsai, Sorai, Norinaga: Three Classical Philologists in Mid-Tokugawa Japan by Yoshikawa Kōjirō, Kikuchi YūjiTetsuo Najita
- MN 39:1 (1984) 101–103Censorship in Imperial Japan by Richard H. MitchellJames L. Huffman
- MN 39:1 (1984) 103–106Studien über den jungen Ōsugi Sakae und die Meiji-Sozialisten zwischen Sozialdemokratie und Anarchismus unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Anarchismusrezeption by Herbert WormF. G. Notehelfer
- MN 39:1 (1984) 106–108The Search for a New Order: Intellectuals and Fascism in Prewar Japan by Miles FletcherThomas A. Stanley
- MN 39:1 (1984) 108–10Zen Action, Zen Person by T. P. KasulisMichiko Yusa
- MN 39:1 (1984) 111–13Tausend Kirschbäume, Yoshitsune: Ein klassisches Stück des japanischen Theaters der Edozeit. Studie, Übersetzung, Kommentar by Eduard KlopfensteinDetlef Schauwecker
- MN 39:1 (1984) 113–14The Griffis Collection of Japanese Books: An Annotated Bibliography by Diane E. PerushekEdward R. Beauchamp