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Monumenta Nipponica Volume 42, Number 3 (1987)- MN 42:3 (1987) 253–88Didacticism in Medieval Short Stories: Hatsuse Monogatari and AkimichiMargaret H. Childs
- MN 42:3 (1987) 258–69A Tale of HatsuseTranslated by Margaret H. Childs
- MN 42:3 (1987) 270–88AkimichiTranslated by Margaret H. Childs
- MN 42:3 (1987) 289–98Recent Soviet Studies in Pre-Modern Japanese LiteratureA. Kabanov
- MN 42:3 (1987) 299–330The Kingyoku Poetry ContestRobert N. Huey
- MN 42:3 (1987) 309–30Kingyoku Uta-awaseTranslated by Robert N. Huey
- MN 42:3 (1987) 331–45Riken no Ken: Zeami’s Theory of Acting and Theatrical AppreciationMichiko Yusa
- MN 42:3 (1987) 347–56Lineation of Tanka in English TranslationHiroaki Sato
- MN 42:3 (1987) 357–58Japanische Parodie im 17. Jahrhundert: Studien zum Nise-Monogatari by Günther WenckPeter F. Kornicki
- MN 42:3 (1987) 359–62Epidemics and Mortality in Early Modern Japan by Ann Bowman JannettaWilliam Wayne Farris
- MN 42:3 (1987) 362–63Anti-Foreignism and Western Learning in Early-Modern Japan: The New Theses of 1825 by Bob Tadashi WakabayashiGrant K. Goodman
- MN 42:3 (1987) 364–66Agricultural Development and Tenancy Disputes in Japan, 1870 to 1940 by Richard J. SmethurstAnn Waswo
- MN 42:3 (1987) 367–69Marxism and the Crisis of Development in Prewar Japan by Germaine A. HostonThomas R. H. Havens
- MN 42:3 (1987) 369–71Tokutomi Sohō (1863–1957): The Later Career by Sinh VinhJames L. Huffman
- MN 42:3 (1987) 371–74Einführung in das Studium der japanischen Geschichte by Hans Adalbert DettmerCarl Steenstrup
- MN 42:3 (1987) 375–77Images of Japanese Society: A Study in the Structure of Social Reality by Ross Mouer, Yoshio SugimotoMiriam Silverberg
- MN 42:3 (1987) 377–79Educational Policies in Crisis: Japanese and American Perspectives by William K. Cummings, Edward R. Beauchamp, Shogo Ichikawa, Victor N. Kobayashi, Morikazu UshiogiH. J. Jones
- MN 42:3 (1987) 379–81Shōbōgenzō: Zen Essays by Dōgen by Thomas ClearyRuben L. F. Habito
- MN 42:3 (1987) 381–83Death Was His Kōan: The Samurai-Zen of Suzuki Shōsan by Winston L. KingPaul B. Watt
- MN 42:3 (1987) 384–86A Zen Life: D. T. Suzuki Remembered by Masao Abe, Francis HaarJohn C. Maraldo
- MN 42:3 (1987) 386–88The Great Eastern Temple: Treasures of Japanese Buddhist Art from Tōdai-Ji by Yutaka Mino, John M. Rosenfield, William H. Coaldrake, Samuel C. Morse, Christine M. E. GuthWilla Jane Tanabe
- MN 42:3 (1987) 388–90Wenceslau de Moraes (1854–1929) und Japan: Eine Untersuchung zur Selbstdarstellung in der exotischen Literatur des Fin de Siècle in Portugal by Helmut FeldmannEngelbert Jorissen
- MN 42:3 (1987) 390Erratum