Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
Monumenta Nipponica Volume 46, Number 4 (1991)- MN 46:4 (1991) 423–51Dharma Transmission in Sōtō Zen: Manzan Dōhaku’s Reform MovementWilliam M. Bodiford
- MN 46:4 (1991) 453–81Shimazaki Tōson on WarSteve Rabson
- MN 46:4 (1991) 483–512Both a Borrower and a Lender Be: From Village Moneylender to Rural Banker in the Tempō EraRonald P. Toby
- MN 46:4 (1991) 513–541Mirroring SaikakuChristopher Drake
- MN 46:4 (1991) 543–545Rethinking Sorrow: Revelatory Tales of Late Medieval Japan by Margaret Helen ChildsJanet R. Goodwin
- MN 46:4 (1991) 545–548Self Portraits: Tales from the life of Japan’s great decadent romantic, Osamu Dazai by Ralph F. McCarthyJoel Cohn
- MN 46:4 (1991) 548–550Language and the Modern State: The Reform of Written Japanese by Nanette TwineJ. Marshall Unger
- MN 46:4 (1991) 550–552The Six National Histories of Japan by Sakamoto Tarō, John S. BrownleeKarl F. Friday
- MN 46:4 (1991) 552–554The Deshima Dagregisters: Their Original Table of Contents, Vol. III, 1700–1710 by Paul van der Velde, Ton Vermeulen; Vol IV, 1710–1720 and Vol V, 1720–1730 by Paul van der VeldeDerek Massarella
- MN 46:4 (1991) 554–556Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism: The Life and Thought of Kaibara Ekken (1630–1714) by Mary Evelyn TuckerKate Wildman-Nakai
- MN 46:4 (1991) 556–557Tantric Art and Meditation: The Tendai Tradition by Michael SasoPaul L. Swanson
- MN 46:4 (1991) 557–559Industrial Harmony in Modern Japan: The Invention of a Tradition by W. Dean KinzleyStephen S. Large
- MN 46:4 (1991) 559–562Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan by Andrew GordonAndrew E. Barshay
- MN 46:4 (1991) 562–564Japanese Part-Time Farming: Evolution and Impacts by Raymond Adelard Jussaume, Jr.Penelope Francks
- MN 46:4 (1991) 564–566Kamikaze Biker: Parody and Anomy in Affluent Japan by Ikuya SatoWilliam W. Kelly
- MN 46:4 (1991) 567–569Japan’s ‘International Youth’: The Emergence of a New Class of Schoolchildren by Roger GoodmanJames J. Shields, Jr.
- MN 46:4 (1991) 569–572The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism by Nishitani Keiji, Graham Parkes, Setsuko Aihara; The Religious Philosophy of Nishitani Keiji: Encounter with Emptiness by Taitetsu UnnoJoseph S. O’Leary
- MN 46:4 (1991) 572–574Nishida Kitarō by Nishitani Keiji, Yamamoto Seisaku, James W. HeisigMichiko Yusa
- MN 46:4 (1991) 574–577The Warrior’s Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa by Stephen PrinceJoanne R. Bernardi
- MN 46:4 (1991) 578Corrigendum