Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
Monumenta Nipponica Volume 46, Number 1 (1991)- MN 46:1 (1991) 1–20The Abominable Tachikawa Skull RitualJames H. Sanford
- MN 46:1 (1991) 21–41The Way of the Gods: Motoori Norinaga’s Naobi no MitamaSey Nishimura
- MN 46:1 (1991) 43–68Water Imagery in the Work of Izumi KyōkaCharles Shirō Inouye
- MN 46:1 (1991) 69–90Land of the Rising Sun: The Predominant East-West Axis among the Early JapaneseEdwina Palmer
- MN 46:1 (1991) 91–103Japanese Castaways and British InterpretersW. G. Beasley
- MN 46:1 (1991) 105–10Cultural Survey, 1990
- MN 46:1 (1991) 111–12A Cat, A Man, and Two Women: Stories by Jun’ichiro Tanizaki by Paul McCarthyVan C. Gessel
- MN 46:1 (1991) 112–16Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan: The Case of Dazai Osamu by Alan WolfeDavid Pollack
- MN 46:1 (1991) 116–19Was heißt: Japanische Literatur verstehen? Zur modernen japanischen Literatur und Literaturkritik by Irmela Hijiya-KirschnereitDoris G. Bargen
- MN 46:1 (1991) 119–20Das Japanbild im ‘Traktat’ (1585) des Luis Frois by Engelbert JorissenArcadio Schwade
- MN 46:1 (1991) 120–23Tokugawa Japan: The Social and Economic Antecedents of Modern Japan by Chie Nakane, Shinzaburō Ōishi, Conrad TotmanConstantine Nomikos Vaporis
- MN 46:1 (1991) 123–25Rioters and Citizens: Mass Protest in Imperial Japan by Michael LewisAnne Walthall
- MN 46:1 (1991) 125–27Theater as Music: The Bunraku Play ‘Mt. Imo and Mt. Se: An Exemplary Tale of Womanly Virtue’ by C. Andrew Gerstle, Kiyoshi Inobe, William P. MalmA. Kimi Coaldrake
- MN 46:1 (1991) 128–30Impermanence is Buddha-nature: Dōgen’s Understanding of Temporality by Joan StambaughHee-Jin Kim
- MN 46:1 (1991) 130–32Sun at Midnight: Poems and Sermons by Musō Soseki by W. S. Merwin, Sōiku ShigematsuRobert E. Morrell
- MN 46:1 (1991) 133–36Nō-Theater: Szene und Dramaturgie, volks- und völkerkundliche Hintergründe by Günter ZobelDarko Suvin
- MN 46:1 (1991) 136–37Japanese Agriculture: Patterns of Rural Development by Richard H. MoorePenelope Francks
- MN 46:1 (1991) 138–40Factory Girls: Women in the Thread Mills of Meiji Japan by E. Patricia TsurumiSally Ann Hastings
- MN 46:1 (1991) 140–41Office Ladies, Factory Women: Life and Work at a Japanese Company by Jeannie LoJoy Hendry
- MN 46:1 (1991) 141–44Unwrapping Japan: Society and Culture in Anthropological Perspective by Eyal Ben-Ari, Brian Moeran, James ValentineWalter Edwards
- MN 46:1 (1991) 144–46Tokyo Rising: The City Since the Great Earthquake by Edward SeidenstickerPaul Waley