Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
Monumenta Nipponica Volume 42, Number 2 (1987)- MN 42:2 (1987) 115–55The Mismeasure of Land: Land Surveying in the Tokugawa PeriodPhilip C. Brown
- MN 42:2 (1987) 157–66The Courtly Model: Chōmei and Kiyomori in JikkinshōWard Geddes
- MN 42:2 (1987) 164–66JikkinshōKamo no Chōmei, Translated by Ward Geddes
- MN 42:2 (1987) 167–209Sōgi in the East Country: Shirakawa KikōSteven D. Carter
- MN 42:2 (1987) 180–209Record of a Journey to ShirakawaSōgi, Translated by Steven D. Carter
- MN 42:2 (1987) 211–17An Explanation of Beauty: Nishida Kitarō’s Bi no SetsumeiSteve Odin
- MN 42:2 (1987) 215–17An Explanation of Beauty: Bi no SetsumeiKitarō Nishida, Translated by Steve Odin
- MN 42:2 (1987) 219–29Interpreting Literary HistoryHaruo Shirane
- MN 42:2 (1987) 231–32Ikkyū and the Crazy Cloud Anthology: A Zen Poet of Medieval Japan by Sonja ArntzenJames H. Sanford
- MN 42:2 (1987) 232–35The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature by Earl Miner, Hiroko Odagiri, Robert E. MorrellEleanor Kerkham
- MN 42:2 (1987) 236–38The Fracture of Meaning: Japan’s Synthesis of China from the Eighth through the Eighteenth Centuries by David PollackRobert E. Morrell
- MN 42:2 (1987) 239–40Japanese History: A Guide to Survey Histories, Part II: Literature by Naomi FukudaNobuko Miyama Ochner
- MN 42:2 (1987) 240–42Japan in Transition: From Tokugawa to Meiji by Marius B. Jansen, Gilbert RozmanRoger Bowen
- MN 42:2 (1987) 243–45Liberalism in Modern Japan: Ishibashi Tanzan and His Teachers, 1905–1960 by Sharon H. NoltePeter Duus
- MN 42:2 (1987) 245–47Six Hidden Views of Japanese Music by William P. MalmBritten Dean
- MN 42:2 (1987) 248–50Windows on the Japanese Past: Studies in Archaeology and Prehistory by Richard J. Pearson, Gina Lee Barnes, Karl L. HuttererCharles T. Keally
- MN 42:2 (1987) 251–52Snow Country Tales: Life in the Other Japan by Suzuki Bokushi, Jeffrey Hunter, Rose Lesser, Anne WalthallMichael Cooper