Monumenta Nipponica Volume 41, Number 2, 1986
MN 41:2 (1986) 127–74Senjūshō: Buddhist Tales of RenunciationJean Moore- MN 41:2 (1986) 175–97Miyazawa Kenji and the Lost Gandharan PaintingSarah M. Strong
- MN 41:2 (1986) 199–219Foreign Threat and Domestic Reform: The Emergence of the Ritsuryō StateBruce L. Batten
- MN 41:2 (1986) 221–37Wu-jing’s Admiration: Nakajima Atsushi’s Gojō Tan’INobuko Miyama Ochner
- MN 41:2 (1986) 239–41The History of the Japanese Written Language by Yaeko Sato HabeinDavid O. Mills
- MN 41:2 (1986) 242–43Shikitei Sanba and the Comic Tradition in Edo Fiction by Robert W. LeutnerRichard Bowring
- MN 41:2 (1986) 243–45A Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government by Nakae Chōmin, Nobuko Tsukui, Jeffrey HammondAnne Walthall
- MN 41:2 (1986) 245–47The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry, 1853–1955 by Andrew GordonChalmers Johnson
- MN 41:2 (1986) 248–50Populist Nationalism in Prewar Japan: A Biography of Nakano Seigō by Leslie Russell OatesMiles Fletcher
- MN 41:2 (1986) 250–52Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939 by Alvin D. CooxJohn J. Stephan
- MN 41:2 (1986) 252–55Lost Innocence: Folk Craft Potters of Onta, Japan by Brian MoeranRupert Faulkner
- MN 41:2 (1986) 255–57Zen and Western Thought by Masao Abe, William R. LaFleurMichiko Yusa
- MN 41:2 (1986) 258–59Dōgen Studies by William R. LaFleurMorris J. Augustine
- MN 41:2 (1986) 259–60Chelovek i mir v yaponskoi kulture [Man and the World in Japanese Culture] by T. P. GrigoryevaHerbert Plutschow