Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
Monumenta Nipponica Volume 48, Number 4 (1993)- MN 48:4 (1993) 407–28The Strangest Place in Edo: The Temple of the Five Hundred ArhatsTimon Screech
- MN 48:4 (1993) 429–67The Meaning of Matrilocality: Kinship, Property, and Politics in Mid-HeianPeter Nickerson
- MN 48:4 (1993) 469–88Kokoro and ‘the Spirit of Meiji’Isamu Fukuchi
- MN 48:4 (1993) 489–91Origins of Modern Japanese Literature by Kōjin Karatani, Brett de BaryCharles Shirō Inouye
- MN 48:4 (1993) 491–93Three Modern Novelists: Sōseki, Tanizaki, Kawabata by Van C. GesselSusan J. Napier
- MN 48:4 (1993) 493–96The Writings of Kōda Aya, a Japanese Literary Daughter by Alan M. TansmanAnn Sherif
- MN 48:4 (1993) 496–99Rats’ Nests: The Collected Poetry of Hagiwara Sakutarō by Robert EppSarah M. Strong
- MN 48:4 (1993) 499–501Ambivalent Moderns: Portraits of Japanese Cultural Identity by Lawrence OlsonShun’ichi H. Takayanagi
- MN 48:4 (1993) 501–504Confucian Values and Popular Zen: Sekimon Shingaku in Eighteenth-Century Japan by Janine Anderson SawadaJohn Allen Tucker
- MN 48:4 (1993) 504–506Japan Through American Eyes: The Journal of Francis Hall, Kanagawa and Yokohama, 1859–1866 by F. G. NotehelferJames L. Huffman
- MN 48:4 (1993) 506–509The Autobiography of Ōsugi Sakae by Byron K. MarshallRichard H. Mitchell
- MN 48:4 (1993) 509–510Japan’s Struggle with Internationalism: Japan, China and the League of Nations, 1931–1933 by Ian NishE. Bruce Reynolds
- MN 48:4 (1993) 511–513Women and Japanese Management: Discrimination and Reform by Alice LamMary C. Brinton
- MN 48:4 (1993) 513–515Women and the Economic Miracle: Gender and Work in Postwar Japan by Mary C. BrintonAlice Lam
- MN 48:4 (1993) 515–518Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan: A Sociological Enquiry by Kosaku YoshinoHarumi Befu
- MN 48:4 (1993) 518–521The Protocol of the Gods: A Study of the Kasuga Cult in Japanese History by Allan G. GrapardRichard A. Gardner
- MN 48:4 (1993) 521–526Chan Insights and Oversights: An Epistemological Critique of the Chan Tradition by Bernard FaureJoseph S. O’Leary
- MN 48:4 (1993) 526–529Eloquent Zen: Daitō and Early Japanese Zen by Kenneth KraftDennis Lishka
- MN 48:4 (1993) 529–531Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan by William R. LaFleurRichard Fox Young
- MN 48:4 (1993) 532–535The Japanese Theatre: From Shamanistic Ritual to Contemporary Plurality by Benito OrtolaniJames R. Brandon
- MN 48:4 (1993) 53517th-Century Japan: A Time of Mystery and Isolation. 120 Paintings by Yusetsu Kaiho by Yusetsu KaihoMichael Cooper