Monumenta Nipponica Volume 51, Number 2, 1996
MN 51:2 (1996) 143–51Ōe no Masafusa and the Practice of Heian AutobiographyMarian Ury and Robert Borgen- MN 51:2 (1996) 148–51Bonen no Ki: A Record of My Twilight YearsŌe no Masafusa, Translated by Marian Ury and Robert Borgen
- MN 51:2 (1996) 153–70Female Self-Writing: Takamure Itsue’s Hi no Kuni no Onna no NikkiRonald P. Loftus
- MN 51:2 (1996) 171–87Dodoitsubō Senka and the Yose of EdoGerald Groemer
- MN 51:2 (1996) 189–217The Way of Yin and Yang: A Tradition Revived, Sold, AdoptedLee A. Butler
- MN 51:2 (1996) 219–44An Errant Priest: Sasayaki TakeFrederick G. Kavanagh
- MN 51:2 (1996) 225–44The Whispering BambooTranslated by Frederick G. Kavanagh
- MN 51:2 (1996) 245–56Recent German Books on JapanCarl Steenstrup
- MN 51:2 (1996) 257–59Ikki: Social Conflict and Political Protest in Early Modern Japan by James W. WhiteAnne Walthall
- MN 51:2 (1996) 259–61Japan Encounters the Barbarian: Japanese Travellers in America and Europe by W. G. BeasleyRoy S. Hanashiro
- MN 51:2 (1996) 262–63Saigō Takamori: The Man Behind the Myth by Charles L. YatesSidney DeVere Brown
- MN 51:2 (1996) 263–65Principle, Praxis, and the Politics of Educational Reform in Meiji Japan by Mark E. LincicomeDonald Roden
- MN 51:2 (1996) 265–68Wind in the Pines: Classic Writings of the Way of Tea as a Buddhist Path by Dennis HirotaTheodore M. Ludwig
- MN 51:2 (1996) 268–70The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro by Shūgō Asano, Timothy ClarkDonald Jenkins
- MN 51:2 (1996) 270–72Lacquerware from the Weston Collection: A Selection of Inro and Boxes by Julia MeechHugh Wylie
- MN 51:2 (1996) 273–75Discourses of the Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, Japan by Marilyn IvyEyal Ben-Ari
- MN 51:2 (1996) 276–77Textiles and Industrial Transition in Japan by Dennis L. McNamaraBarbara Molony