Monumenta Nipponica Volume 40, Number 1, 1985
MN 40:1 (1985) 1–37Musical Instruction in Meiji Education: A Study of Adaptation and AssimilationUry Eppstein- MN 40:1 (1985) 39–67The Danka SystemKenneth A. Marcure
- MN 40:1 (1985) 69–96Forging the Past: Medieval Counterfeit DocumentsHitomi Tonomura
- MN 40:1 (1985) 97–106CorrespondenceHerman Ooms and Joyce Ackroyd
- MN 40:1 (1985) 107–10Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era by Donald KeeneMakoto Ueda
- MN 40:1 (1985) 110–13Tanrokubon: Rare Books of Seventeenth Century Japan by Kogorō Yoshida, Ryūshin Matsumoto, Mark A. HarbisonK. B. Gardner
- MN 40:1 (1985) 113–15Retreat from Reform: Patterns of Political Behavior in Interwar Japan by Sharon MinichielloBen-Ami Shillony
- MN 40:1 (1985) 115–18Dialektik der absoluten Vemittlung: Hajime Tanabes Religionsphilosophie als Beitrag zum ‘Wettstreit der Liebe’ zwischen Buddhismus und Christentum by Johannes LaubeJames W. Heisig
- MN 40:1 (1985) 118–20Lay Buddhism in Contemporary Japan: Reiyūkai Kyōdan by Helen HardacreRobert Ellwood
- MN 40:1 (1985) 120–22Japanese Papermaking: Tradition, Tools, and Techniques by Timothy BarrettSukey Hughes
- MN 40:1 (1985) 122–26Saibara: Japanese Court Songs of the Heian Period by Elizabeth J. MarkhamSteven G. Nelson