Monumenta Nipponica Volume 40, Number 3, 1985
MN 40:3 (1985) 257–82A Miscellany of Old Letters: Saikaku’s Yorozu no FumihōguVirginia Marcus- MN 40:3 (1985) 265–82Yorozu no FumihōguIhara Saikaku, Translated by Virginia Marcus
- MN 40:3 (1985) 283–98Popular Entertainment and Politics: The Great Dengaku of 1096Jacob Raz
- MN 40:3 (1985) 299–310The Prince and the Pauper: The Dynamics of a Shōtoku LegendSey Nishimura
- MN 40:3 (1985) 311–30Fragmented Estates: The Breakup of the Myō and the Decline of the Shōen SystemThomas E. Keirstead
- MN 40:3 (1985) 331–47Why Leave Nara?: Kammu and the Transfer of the CapitalRonald P. Toby
- MN 40:3 (1985) 349–51Hitomaro and the Birth of Japanese Lyricism by Ian Hideo LevyPhillip T. Harries
- MN 40:3 (1985) 352–55Kokinshū: A Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern by Laurel Rasplica Rodd, Mary Catherine HenkeniusThomas H. Rohlich
- MN 40:3 (1985) 355–60A History of Japanese Literature. Volume One: The Archaic and Ancient Ages by Jin’ichi Konishi, Aileen Gatten, Nicholas Teele, Earl MinerD. E. Mills
- MN 40:3 (1985) 360–62Audience and Actors: A Study of Their Interaction in Japanese Traditional Theatre by Jacob RazJames R. Brandon
- MN 40:3 (1985) 363–65Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan by Emiko Ohnuki-TierneySusan Orpett Long
- MN 40:3 (1985) 365–67Against the State: Politics and Social Protest in Japan by David Apter, Nagayo SawaJ. Victor Koschmann
- MN 40:3 (1985) 367–69Ancient Tales in Modern Japan: An Anthology of Japanese Folk Tales by Fanny Hagin MayerChieko Irie Mulhern
- MN 40:3 (1985) 369–71Die frühe Nietzsche-Rezeption in Japan (1893–1903): Ein Beitrag zur Individualismusproblematik im Modernisierungsprozess by Hans-Joachim BeckerJohn C. Maraldo
- MN 40:3 (1985) 372–73Technology and Agricultural Development in Pre-War Japan by Penelope FrancksWilliam W. Kelly
- MN 40:3 (1985) 374–75101 Favorite Songs Taught in Japanese Schools by Ichiro NakanoUry Eppstein