Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
Monumenta Nipponica Volume 55, Number 1 (2000)- MN 55:1 (2000) 1–43Record of an Autumn Wind: The Travel Diary of Arii ShokyūHiroaki Sato
- MN 55:1 (2000) 14–43Record of an Autumn WindArii Shokyū, Translated by Hiroaki Sato
- MN 55:1 (2000) 45–81Elegance, Prosperity, Crisis: Three Generations of Tokugawa Village ElitesBrian W. Platt
- MN 55:1 (2000) 83–108Kajin no Kigū: The Meiji Political Novel and the Boundaries of LiteratureAtsuko Sakaki
- MN 55:1 (2000) 109–20His Story of Japan: Engelbert Kaempfer’s Manuscript in a New TranslationWolfgang Michel
- MN 55:1 (2000) 121–23Osaka: The Merchants’ Capital of Early Modern Japan by James L. McClain, Wakita OsamuAnne Walthall
- MN 55:1 (2000) 124–27The Japanese Discovery of Victorian Britain: Early Travel Encounters in the Far West by Andrew Cobbing; The Iwakura Mission in America and Europe: A New Assessment by Ian NishM. William Steele
- MN 55:1 (2000) 128–29Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. DowerSimon Partner
- MN 55:1 (2000) 129–32Entstehung und Morphologie des klassischen Kyōgen im 17. Jahrhundert: Vom mittelalterlichen Theater der Aussenseiter zum Kammerspiel des Shogunats by Stanca Scholz-CioncaGünter Zobel
- MN 55:1 (2000) 132–35Wandering Heart: The Work and Method of Hayashi Fumiko by Susanna FesslerEve Zimmerman
- MN 55:1 (2000) 135–38Gender Is Fair Game: (Re)Thinking the (Fe)Male in the Works of Ōba Minako by Michiko Niikuni WilsonEileen B. Mikals-Adachi
- MN 55:1 (2000) 138–39Wasser-Spuren: Festschrift für Wolfram Naumann zum 65. Geburtstag by Stanca Scholz-CioncaJohann Nawrocki
- MN 55:1 (2000) 139–42Hōnen’s Senchakushū: Passages on the Selection of the Nembutsu in the Original Vow (Senchaku hongan nembutsu shū) by Senchakushū English Translation ProjectDennis Hirota
- MN 55:1 (2000) 142–44Japans Blinde Sänger im Schutz der Gottheit Myōon-Benzaiten by Ingrid FritschSilvain Guignard
- MN 55:1 (2000) 144–46Practically Religious: Worldly Benefits and the Common Religion of Japan by Ian Reader, George J. Tanabe, Jr.Karen A. Smyers
- MN 55:1 (2000) 147–49Interkulturelle Philosophie und Phänomenologie in Japan by Tadashi Ogawa, Michael Lazarin, Guido RappeJoseph S. O’Leary
- MN 55:1 (2000) 149–52Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory by Lisa YoneyamaGerald Figal
- MN 55:1 (2000) 152–54Zen Buddhist Landscape Arts in Early Muromachi Japan (1336–1573) by Joseph D. ParkerSonja Arntzen
- MN 55:1 (2000) 154–57Hiraizumi: Buddhist Art and Regional Politics in Twelfth-Century Japan by Mimi Hall YiengpruksawanSamuel C. Morse
- MN 55:1 (2000) 157–59Pachinko monogatari: Soziokulturelle Exploration der japanischen Glücks- spielindustrie by Wolfram ManzenreiterStanca Scholz-Cionca