Monumenta Nipponica Volume 39, Number 4, 1984
MN 39:4 (1984) 371–92Peripheries: Rural Culture in Tokugawa JapanAnne Walthall- MN 39:4 (1984) 393–407The Lotus Lectures: Hokke Hakkō in the Heian PeriodWilla Jane Tanabe
- MN 39:4 (1984) 435–43Dialect in Tanizaki’s ShunkinshōWard Geddes
- MN 39:4 (1984) 445–52The National Noh TheaterJanet E. Goff
- MN 39:4 (1984) 453Ariyoshi Sawako, 1931–1984
- MN 39:4 (1984) 455–57The Changelings: A Classical Japanese Court Tale by Rosette F. WilligThomas J. Harper
- MN 39:4 (1984) 457–59Dazai Osamu: Selected Stories and Sketches by James O’BrienDavid Brudnoy
- MN 39:4 (1984) 459–63State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu by Ronald P. TobyJohn Whitney Hall
- MN 39:4 (1984) 463–64History in the Service of the Japanese Nation by John S. BrownleeGrant K. Goodman
- MN 39:4 (1984) 464–66The Justice of the Western Consular Courts in Nineteenth Century Japan by Richard T. ChangJ. E. Hoare
- MN 39:4 (1984) 467–68Kodō Zuroku: Illustrated Book on the Smelting of Copper by Masuda Tsuna, Cyril Stanley SmithJames R. Bartholomew
- MN 39:4 (1984) 468–70Politics and Sinology: The Case of Naitō Konan (1866–1934) by Joshua A. FogelSharon H. Nolte
- MN 39:4 (1984) 471–72Japanese Society: Tradition, Self and the Social Order by Robert J. SmithDavid W. Plath
- MN 39:4 (1984) 472–74Freedom of Expression in Japan: A Study in Comparative Law, Politics, and Society by Lawrence Ward BeerDavid Wessels
- MN 39:4 (1984) 474–76On the Art of Nō Drama: The Major Treatises of Zeami by J. Thomas Rimer, Yamazaki MasakazuP. G. O’Neill
- MN 39:4 (1984) 476–80Iconography of The Tale of Genji: Genji Monogatari Ekotoba by Miyeko MuraseJulia Meech-Pekarik
- MN 39:4 (1984) 481–84Passages on the Pure Land Way: A Translation of Shinran’s Jōdo monrui jushō by Yoshifumi Ueda; The True Teaching, Practice and Realization of the Pure Land Way. A Translation of Shinran’s Kyōgyōshinshō, Volume I by Yoshifumi UedaThomas P. Kasulis
- MN 39:4 (1984) 484–86A Dictionary of Buddhist Terms and Concepts by Nichiren Shōshū International CenterGeorge J. Tanabe