Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
Monumenta Nipponica Volume 54, Number 2 (1999)- MN 54:2 (1999) 169–94Legends, Secrets, and Authority: Hachijō Kadensho and Early Modern NohEric C. Rath
- MN 54:2 (1999) 195–215Izumi Kyōka’s Uta Andon: Between Anachronism and the Avant-gardeChiyoko Kawakami
- MN 54:2 (1999) 217–46Lost in the Cosmos and the Need to KnowRichard A. Gardner
- MN 54:2 (1999) 247–58Approaches to Ogyū Sorai: Translation and TransculturalizationW. J. Boot
- MN 54:2 (1999) 259–65“To Learn What Fear Was”: Comparative Studies at the AbyssIrmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
- MN 54:2 (1999) 267–69Japans Kurtisanen: Eine Kulturgeschichte der japanischen Meisterinnen der Unterhaltungskunst und Erotik aus zwölf Jahrhunderten by Michael SteinKlaus Vollmer
- MN 54:2 (1999) 270–72Le naturel selon Andō Shōeki: Un type de discours sur la nature et la spontanéité par un maître-confucéen de l’époque Tokugawa: Andō Shōeki (1703–1762) by Jacques JolyKarine Marandjian
- MN 54:2 (1999) 272–74The Junk Trade from Southeast Asia: Translations from the Tōsen Fusetsugaki, 1674–1723 by Yoneo IshiiWillem Remmelink
- MN 54:2 (1999) 274–76Zwischen Tradition und Moderne: Die Bewegung für den Fortbestand der Kanpō-Medizin in Japan by Christian OberländerYukiko Fujita
- MN 54:2 (1999) 276–78Frauen zwischen Rollenerwartung und Selbstdeutung: Ehe, Mutterschaft und Liebe im Spiegel der japanischen Frauenzeitschrift Shin shin fujin von 1913 bis 1916 by Ulrike WöhrHilaria Gössmann
- MN 54:2 (1999) 278–81Interpreting History in Sino-Japanese Relations: A Case Study in Decision-Making by Caroline RoseC. W. Braddick
- MN 54:2 (1999) 281–82Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan: The Works of Poet-Priest Kamo no Chōmei by Rajyashree PandeyMargaret H. Childs
- MN 54:2 (1999) 283–85Breeze Through Bamboo: Kanshi of Ema Saikō with Illustrations by the Poet by Hiroaki SatoRobert Campbell
- MN 54:2 (1999) 286–88The Similitude of Blossoms: A Critical Biography of Izumi Kyōka (1873–1939), Japanese Novelist and Playwright by Charles Shirō InouyeAngela Yiu
- MN 54:2 (1999) 289–90Européens & Japonais: Traité sur les contradictions & différences de moeurs, écrit par le R. P. Luís Fróis, au Japon, l’an 1585 by Luís Fróis, Xavier de CastroMichael Cooper
- MN 54:2 (1999) 290–92“La sieste sous l’aile du cormoran” et autres poèmes magiques: Prolégomènes à l’étude des concepts religieux du Japon by Hartmut O. RotermundRoyall Tyler
- MN 54:2 (1999) 292–93Women and Religion in Japan by Akiko Okuda, Haruko Okano, Alison WattsMark R. Mullins
- MN 54:2 (1999) 293–95The Culture of Japan as Seen through Its Leisure by Sepp Linhart, Sabine FrühstückCarolyn Stevens
- MN 54:2 (1999) 295–97About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater by Dorinne KondoMariko Asano Tamanoi
- MN 54:2 (1999) 299–302CorrespondencePeter Wetzler and Stephen S. Large