Monumenta Nipponica Volume 52, Number 2, 1997
MN 52:2 (1997) 145–80Embodiment/Disembodiment: Japanese Painting during the Fifteen-Year WarBert Winther-Tamaki- MN 52:2 (1997) 181–99Tarrying with the Negative: Aesthetic Vision in Murasaki and MishimaJohn R. Wallace
- MN 52:2 (1997) 201–34Crossed Paths: Zeami’s Transmission to ZenchikuNoel J. Pinnington
- MN 52:2 (1997) 235–57Attaining Landscapes in the Mind: Nature Poetry and Painting in Gozan ZenJoseph D. Parker
- MN 52:2 (1997) 259–61Takeuchi Rizō, 1907–1997: In MemoriamJeffrey P. Mass
- MN 52:2 (1997) 263–65Unforgotten Dreams: Poems by the Zen Monk Shōtetsu by Steven D. CarterAileen Gatten
- MN 52:2 (1997) 266–68A Healing Family by Ōe Kenzaburō, Stephen SnyderMatthew Mizenko
- MN 52:2 (1997) 268–71Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan by T. FujitaniJohn Breen
- MN 52:2 (1997) 271–74Tokugawa Confucian Education: The Kangien Academy of Hirose Tansō (1782–1856) by Marleen KasselDe-min Tao
- MN 52:2 (1997) 274–76The Moral and Political Naturalism of Baron Katō Hiroyuki by Winston DavisRobert E. Carter
- MN 52:2 (1997) 276–79Die Transmoderne: Eine kulturkritische Diskussion im Japan der Kreigszeit by Detlef Bauer; Überwindung der Moderne? Japan am Ende des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts by Irmela Hijiya-KirschnereitJoseph S. O’Leary
- MN 52:2 (1997) 280–83Japan and Christianity: Impacts and Responses by John Breen, Mark WilliamsF. G. Notehelfer
- MN 52:2 (1997) 283–86Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan by Helen HardacreRichard A. Gardner
- MN 52:2 (1997) 286–89Nihonga, Transcending the Past: Japanese-Style Painting, 1868–1968 by Ellen P. Conant, Steven D. Owyoung, J. Thomas RimerPatricia Fister
- MN 52:2 (1997) 289–92North Koreans in Japan: Language, Ideology, and Identity by Sonia RyangJohn Lie
- MN 52:2 (1997) 292–94The Modern Epidemic: A History of Tuberculosis in Japan by William JohnstonPaul Weindling