Monumenta Nipponica Volume 52, Number 4, 1997
MN 52:4 (1997) 441–65Allegories of Desire: Poetry and Eroticism in Ise Monogatari ZuinōSusan Blakeley Klein- MN 52:4 (1997) 467–521Saigyō’s Traveling Tale: A Translation of Saigyō MonogatariGustav Heldt
- MN 52:4 (1997) 523–540Japanese Rule in Korea after the March First Uprising: Governor General Hasegawa’s RecommendationsRichard Devine
- MN 52:4 (1997) 541–546The Taitokuin MausoleumWilliam H. Coaldrake
- MN 52:4 (1997) 547–549Regent Redux: A Life of the Statesman-Scholar Ichijō Kaneyoshi by Steven D. CarterRoselee Bundy
- MN 52:4 (1997) 549–552Questions de Poétique japonaise by Jacqueline PigeotEileen Katō
- MN 52:4 (1997) 552–555Rituals of Self-Revelation: Shishōsetsu as Literary Genre and Socio-Cultural Phenomenon by Irmela Hijiya-KirschnereitJanet A. Walker
- MN 52:4 (1997) 555–557Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life by Sheldon GaronAnn Waswo
- MN 52:4 (1997) 557–560Authenticating Culture in Imperial Japan: Kuki Shūzō and the Rise of National Aesthetics by Leslie PincusMeera S. Viswanathan
- MN 52:4 (1997) 560–563Watsuji Tetsurō’s Rinrigaku: Ethics in Japan by Watsuji Tetsurō, Yamamoto Seisaku, Robert E. CarterJohn C. Maraldo
- MN 52:4 (1997) 563–566Originary Enlightenment: Tendai Hongaku Doctrine and Japanese Buddhism by Ruben L. F. HabitoJacqueline Stone
- MN 52:4 (1997) 566–568Letters of Nichiren by Philip B. Yampolsky, Burton WatsonGeorge J. Tanabe
- MN 52:4 (1997) 568–570Architecture and Authority in Japan by William H. CoaldrakeJohanne Grenier
- MN 52:4 (1997) 571–573The Voyage of Contemporary Japanese Theater by Senda Akihiko, J. Thomas RimerMari Boyd
- MN 52:4 (1997) 573–575Political Bribery in Japan by Richard H. MitchellJack Lewis
- MN 52:4 (1997) 575–578Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan: Reading Between the Lines by J. Marshall UngerNanette Gottlieb
- MN 52:4 (1997) 578–579An Empire of Schools: Japan’s Universities and the Molding of a National Power Elite by Robert L. CuttsRichard H. Mitchell
- MN 52:4 (1997) 580–582San’ya Blues: Laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo by Edward FowlerJeffrey E. Hanes
- MN 52:4 (1997) 582–585Multicultural Japan: Palaeolithic to Postmodern by Donald Denoon, Mark Hudson, Gavan McCormack, Tessa Morris-SuzukiWalter Edwards
- MN 52:4 (1997) 585–588Living With the Bomb: American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age by Laura Hein, Mark SeldenFranziska Seraphim