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Monumenta Nipponica Volume 43, Number 4 (1988)- MN 43:4 (1988) 391–416Fitful Slumbers: Nun Abutsu’s UtataneJohn R. Wallace
- MN 43:4 (1988) 399–416Fitful Slumbers: UtataneAbutsu-Ni, Translated by John R. Wallace
- MN 43:4 (1988) 417–27Framing the Self: The Philosophical Dimensions of Human Nature in KokoroDavid Pollack
- MN 43:4 (1988) 429–54Standardizing Written Japanese: A Factor in ModernizationNanette Twine
- MN 43:4 (1988) 455–63Incest and Rebirth in KojikiFuminobu Murakami
- MN 43:4 (1988) 465–70Cultural Survey, 1988
- MN 43:4 (1988) 471–73Notes journalières de Fujiwara no Michinaga, ministre à la cour de Hei.an (995–1018): Traduction du Midō kanpakuki by Francine HérailAileen Gatten
- MN 43:4 (1988) 473–75Childhood Years: A Memoir by Jun’ichiro Tanizaki, Paul McCarthyPaul Anderer
- MN 43:4 (1988) 476–78Shijin: Autobiography of the Poet Kaneko Mitsuharu, 1895–1975 by A. R. Davis, A. D. Syrokomla-StefanowskaSarah M. Strong
- MN 43:4 (1988) 478–81The Marginal World of Ōe Kenzaburō: A Study in Themes and Techniques by Michiko N. WilsonPaul McCarthy
- MN 43:4 (1988) 481–83Daughters of the Moon: Wish, Will, and Social Constraint in Fiction by Modern Japanese Women by Victoria V. VernonRebecca Copeland
- MN 43:4 (1988) 483–86Visions of Virtue in Tokugawa Japan: The Kaitokudō Merchant Academy of Osaka by Tetsuo NajitaRichard Rubinger
- MN 43:4 (1988) 486–88Enlightenment and Beyond: Political Economy Comes to Japan by Chuhei Sugiyama, Hiroshi MizutaByron K. Marshall
- MN 43:4 (1988) 488–91The Ashio Copper Mine Revolt (1907): A Case Study on the Changes of the Labor Relations in Japan at the Beginning of the XX Century by Paolo CalvettiF. G. Notehelfer
- MN 43:4 (1988) 491–94Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750–1920 by Thomas C. SmithWilliam B. Hauser
- MN 43:4 (1988) 494–95Themes and Theories in Modern Japanese History: Essays in Memory of Richard Storry by Sue Henny, Jean-Pierre LehmannJohn S. Brownlee
- MN 43:4 (1988) 495–97The State and the Mass Media in Japan, 1918–1945 by Gregory J. KaszaRichard H. Mitchell
- MN 43:4 (1988) 497–500Philosophy as Metanoetics by Tanabe Hajime, Takeuchi Yoshinori, Valdo H. Viglielmo, James W. HeisigDavid A. Dilworth
- MN 43:4 (1988) 500–502Esoteric Buddhist Painting by Hisatoyo Ishida, E. Dale SaundersMichael R. Saso
- MN 43:4 (1988) 502–504Paintings of the Lotus Sutra by Willa J. TanabeChristine M. E. Guth
- MN 43:4 (1988) 505–508Tall Mountains and Flowing Waters: The Arts of Uragami Gyokudō by Stephen AddissPaul Berry
- MN 43:4 (1988) 508–510The Making of a Modern Japanese Architecture: 1868 to the Present by David B. StewartKazuo Matsubayashi
- MN 43:4 (1988) 510–512Miwa, der Heilige Trank: Zur Geschichte und religiösen Bedeutung des alkoholischen Getränkes (sake) in Japan by Klaus AntoniFelicia Gressitt Bock
- MN 43:4 (1988) 512–517Health, Illness, and Medical Care in Japan: Culture and Social Dimensions by Edward Norbeck, Margaret Lock; Health and Illness in Changing Japanese Society by Kyoichi SonodaStephen R. Smith
- MN 43:4 (1988) 517–518The Japanese Through American Eyes by Sheila K. JohnsonTakie Sugiyama Lebra
- MN 43:4 (1988) 519–521Japanese Studies in the United States, Part 1: History and Present Condition by Marius B. JansenConrad Totman