Monumenta Nipponica Volume 52, Number 1, 1997
MN 52:1 (1997) 1–34Tokugawa Authority and Chinese Exemplars: The Teikan Zusetsu Murals of Nagoya CastleKaren M. Gerhart- MN 52:1 (1997) 35–58Dissent from Within: Hasegawa Nyozekan, Liberal Critic of FascismMary L. Hanneman
- MN 52:1 (1997) 59–84Sex, Lies, and the Illustrated Scroll: The Dōjōji Engi EmakiVirginia Skord Waters
- MN 52:1 (1997) 85–102Obama: The Rise and Decline of a SeaportIsao Soranaka
- MN 52:1 (1997) 103–16Japan in 1996
- MN 52:1 (1997) 117–20Ideology and Narrative in Modern Japanese Literature by Fuminobu MurakamiRichard Torrance
- MN 52:1 (1997) 120–21Narrating the Self: Fictions of Japanese Modernity by Tomi SuzukiPhyllis Larson
- MN 52:1 (1997) 122–24The Blue-Eyed Tarōkaja: A Donald Keene Anthology by J. Thomas RimerChia-Ning Chang
- MN 52:1 (1997) 125–26Japan’s Name Culture: The Significance of Names in a Religious, Political and Social Context by Herbert PlutschowAlexander M. Kabanoff
- MN 52:1 (1997) 126–28Catalogue of pre-Meiji Japanese books and maps in public collections in the Netherlands by H. KerlenPeter F. Kornicki
- MN 52:1 (1997) 128–31The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan: The Lens within the Heart by Timon ScreechReinier H. Hesselink
- MN 52:1 (1997) 131–34The Constitutional Case Law of Japan, 1970 through 1990 by Lawrence W. Beer, Hiroshi ItoMichael K. Young
- MN 52:1 (1997) 134–36Re-Imaging Japanese Women by Anne E. ImamuraJanet Hunter
- MN 52:1 (1997) 136–39The Gift of Generations: Japanese and American Perspectives on Aging and the Social Contract by Akiko HashimotoSheila K. Johnson
- MN 52:1 (1997) 139–41Sir Harry Parkes: British Representative in Japan 1865–83 by Gordon DanielsIan Ruxton
- MN 52:1 (1997) 141–43The Gods Come Dancing: A Study of the Japanese Ritual Dance of Yamabushi Kagura by Irit AverbuchJoão Mira