Monumenta Nipponica Volume 42, Number 1, 1987
MN 42:1 (1987) 1–23The Divine Boy in Japanese ArtChristine M. E. Guth- MN 42:1 (1987) 25–55The Daruma-shū, Dōgen and Sōtō ZenBernard Faure
- MN 42:1 (1987) 57–87The Fujinoki Tomb and Its Grave-GoodsJ. Edward Kidder, Jr.
- MN 42:1 (1987) 89–91Principles of Classical Japanese Literature by Earl MinerThomas H. Rohlich
- MN 42:1 (1987) 92–97Social Protest and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century Japan by Anne Walthall; Deference and Defiance in Nineteenth-Century Japan by William W. KellyJames L. McClain
- MN 42:1 (1987) 98–100The Diary of Kido Takayoshi, Volume 3, 1874–1877 by Sidney DeVere Brown, Akiko HirotaMarius B. Jansen
- MN 42:1 (1987) 101–103Circles of Fantasy: Convention in the Plays of Chikamatsu by C. Andrew GerstleStanleigh H. Jones
- MN 42:1 (1987) 103–106The Way of Acting: The Theatre Writings of Tadashi Suzuki by J. Thomas RimerLaurence R. Kominz
- MN 42:1 (1987) 107–10The Bodymind Experience in Japanese Buddhism: A Phenomenological Study of Kūkai and Dōgen by David Edward ShanerJames H. Sanford
- MN 42:1 (1987) 110–11The Yanagita Kunio Guide to the Japanese Folk Tale by Fanny Hagin MayerMargaret H. Childs
- MN 42:1 (1987) 112–14Hateruma: Socio-Religious Aspects of a South-Ryukyuan Island Culture by C. OuwehandRichard Pearson