Monumenta Nipponica Volume 53, Number 1, 1998
MN 53:1 (1998) 1–11Sixty Monumental YearsMichael Cooper- MN 53:1 (1998) 45–71Philosophy and Inflation: Miki Kiyoshi in Weimar Germany, 1922–1924Michiko Yusa
- MN 53:1 (1998) 73–104Digging for Edo: Archaeology and Japan’s Premodern Urban PastConstantine N. Vaporis
- MN 53:1 (1998) 105–108Naming Properties: Nominal Reference in Travel Writings by Bashō and Sora, Johnson and Boswell by Earl MinerDavid Landis Barnhill
- MN 53:1 (1998) 108–11Partings at Dawn: An Anthology of Japanese Gay Literature by Stephen D. MillerRichard Torrance
- MN 53:1 (1998) 111–14Edo Culture: Daily Life and Diversions in Urban Japan, 1600–1868 by Nishiyama Matsunosuke, Gerald GroemerConstantine N. Vaporis
- MN 53:1 (1998) 114–16Creating a Public: People and Press in Meiji Japan by James L. HuffmanTakashi Fujitani
- MN 53:1 (1998) 117–19The Birth of Japan’s Postwar Constitution by Koseki Shōichi, Ray A. MooreKyoko Inoue
- MN 53:1 (1998) 120–22Kojiki-den: Book 1 by Ann WehmeyerJohn R. Bentley
- MN 53:1 (1998) 122–24Reflections on Japanese Taste: The Structure of Iki by Kuki Shūzō, John Clark, Sakoku MatsuiRobert W. Adams
- MN 53:1 (1998) 124–27Zen and Comparative Studies by Masao Abe, Stephen HeineRobert E. Carter
- MN 53:1 (1998) 127–30Glaube in Japan: Alexandro Valignanos Katechismus, seine moraltheologischen Aussagen im japanischen Kontext by Joseph B. MühlbergerJoseph F. Moran
- MN 53:1 (1998) 130–35A History of Japanese Koto Music and Ziuta by Kikkawa Eisi [Eishi], Leonard Holvik; Women’s Gidayū and the Japanese Theatre Tradition by A. Kimi CoaldrakeGerald Groemer
- MN 53:1 (1998) 135–39Papers on the History of Industry and Technology of Japan. Vol. 1: From the Ritsuryō-System to the Early Meiji-Period by Erich Pauer; Vol. 2: From the Meiji-Period to Postwar Japan by Erich Pauer; Vol. 3: Development of the Japanese Glass Industry by Erich Pauer, Sakata HironobuDavid G. Wittner
- MN 53:1 (1998) 139–41Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology by Jinnai Hidenobu, Kimiko NishimuraTheodore C. Bestor
- MN 53:1 (1998) 142–44Japan: The Childless Society? The Crisis of Motherhood by Muriel JolivetHarald Fuess
- MN 53:1 (1998) 144–47Japans Neue Linke: Soziale Bewegung und ausserparlamentarische Opposition, 1957–1994 by Claudia DerichsBenjamin D. Middleton
- MN 53:1 (1998) 147–49The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture by Mark SchillingDoug Slaymaker