Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
Monumenta Nipponica Volume 49, Number 2 (1994)- MN 49:2 (1994) 139–65The Political Thought of Nishida KitarōPierre Lavelle
- MN 49:2 (1994) 167–96Public Display and Changing Values: Early Meiji Exhibitions and Their PrecursorsPeter F. Kornicki
- MN 49:2 (1994) 197–227Santai Waka: Six Poems in Three Modes (Part 1)Translated by Roselee Bundy
- MN 49:2 (1994) 229–32Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century by Donald KeeneSonja Arntzen
- MN 49:2 (1994) 233–35Poèmes de Fujiwara no Michinaga, ministre à la cour de Hei.an (995–1018) by Francine HérailEileen Katō
- MN 49:2 (1994) 235–37Ono no Komachi: Poems, Stories, Nō Plays by Roy E. Teele, Nicholas J. Teele, H. Rebecca TeeleVirginia Skord Waters
- MN 49:2 (1994) 237–40Representations of Power: The Literary Politics of Medieval Japan by Michele MarraJoshua S. Mostow
- MN 49:2 (1994) 240–41Voyages en d’autres mondes: Récits japonais du XVIe siècle by Jacqueline Pigeot, Kosugi KeikoRoyall Tyler
- MN 49:2 (1994) 241–43Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees: A Masterpiece of the Eighteenth-Century Japanese Puppet Theater by Stanleigh H. Jones, Jr.Drew Gerstle
- MN 49:2 (1994) 244–45Modern Japanese Ceramics in American Collections by Frederick Baekeland, Robert MoesStephen Addiss
- MN 49:2 (1994) 245–47Kimono: Fashioning Culture by Liza Crihfield DalbySharon Sadako Takeda
- MN 49:2 (1994) 247–49Rice as Self: Japanese Identities through Time by Emiko Ohnuki-TierneyAnn Waswo
- MN 49:2 (1994) 249–51Japan’s Political Marketplace by J. Mark Ramseyer, Frances McCall RosenbluthE. B. Keehn
- MN 49:2 (1994) 252–55Alms and Vagabonds: Buddhist Temples and Popular Patronage in Medieval Japan by Janet R. GoodwinIan Reader
- MN 49:2 (1994) 255–57Religion and Society in Modern Japan: Selected Readings by Mark R. Mullins, Shimazono Susumu, Paul L. SwansonCharles H. Hambrick
- MN 49:2 (1994) 258–59Matsuri: Festivals of a Japanese Town by Michael AshkenaziC. Scott Littleton
- MN 49:2 (1994) 259Corrigendum