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Monumenta Nipponica Volume 41, Number 3 (1986)- MN 41:3 (1986) 261–98The Emperor’s Songs: Go-Shirakawa and Ryōjin Hishō KudenshūYung-Hee Kim Kwon
- MN 41:3 (1986) 299–330The Samurai Disestablished: Abei Iwane and His StipendGeorge Akita and Masatoshi Sakeda
- MN 41:3 (1986) 331–43From Inspiration to Institution: The Rise of Sectarian Identity in Jōdo ShinshūJames C. Dobbins
- MN 41:3 (1986) 345–48I racconti di Ise (Ise Monogatari) by Michele MarraValdo H. Viglielmo
- MN 41:3 (1986) 349–51The Riverside Counselor’s Stories: Vernacular Fiction of Late Heian Japan by Robert L. BackusMark Morris
- MN 41:3 (1986) 352–53Zen Poems of the Five Mountains by David PollackJohn Stevens
- MN 41:3 (1986) 353–55Woman in the Crested Kimono: The Life of Shibue Io and Her Family Drawn from Mori Ōgai’s ‘Shibue Chūsai’ by Edwin McClellanYoshiyuki Nakai
- MN 41:3 (1986) 356–58Naomi by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, Anthony H. ChambersKen K. Ito
- MN 41:3 (1986) 359–60The Sting of Death’ and Other Stories by Shimao Toshio by Shimao Toshio, Kathryn SparlingVan C. Gessel
- MN 41:3 (1986) 361–64The Bakufu in Japanese History by Jeffrey P. Mass, William B. HauserCarl Steenstrup
- MN 41:3 (1986) 364–66Buddhism and the State in Sixteenth-Century Japan by Neil McMullinHerman Ooms
- MN 41:3 (1986) 366–69Dr Willis in Japan: British Medical Pioneer, 1862–1877 by Hugh Cortazzi; Mitford’s Japan: The Memoirs and Recollections, 1866–1906, of Algernon Bertram Mitford, the First Lord Redesdale by Hugh CortazziMichael Cooper
- MN 41:3 (1986) 369–71Five Political Leaders of Modern Japan: Itō Hirobumi, Ōkuma Shigenobu, Hara Takashi, Inukai Tsuyoshi, and Saionji Kimmochi by Yoshitake Oka, Andrew Fraser, Patricia MurrayJames L. Huffman
- MN 41:3 (1986) 372–74Fukuzawa Yukichi on Education: Selected Works by Eiichi KiyookaDavid A. Dilworth
- MN 41:3 (1986) 374–76What is Japanese Architecture? A Survey of Traditional Japanese Architecture with a List of Sites and a Map by Kazuo Nishi, Kazuo Hozumi, H. Mack HortonWilliam H. Coaldrake