Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
Monumenta Nipponica Volume 58, Number 4 (2003)- MN 58:4 (2003) 439–93A Chūshingura Palimpsest: Young Motoori Norinaga Hears the Story of the Akō Rōnin from a Buddhist PriestFederico Marcon and Henry D. Smith II
- MN 58:4 (2003) 467–93The Story of the Loyal Samurai of AkōMotoori Norinaga, Translated by Federico Marcon
- MN 58:4 (2003) 495–529Childhood Reimagined: The Memoirs of Ōgai’s ChildrenTomoko Aoyama
- MN 58:4 (2003) 531–533In Little Need of Divine Intervention: Takezaki Suenaga’s Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions of Japan by Thomas D. ConlanReinhard Zöllner
- MN 58:4 (2003) 534–537Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period, 1603–1868 by Marcia YonemotoLuke S. Roberts
- MN 58:4 (2003) 537–539The Origin and Development of Japanese-Style Organization by Kasaya KazuhikoMark Ravina
- MN 58:4 (2003) 539–541Konfliktaustragung in autoritären Herrschaftssystemen: Eine historische Fallstudie zur frühsozialistischen Bewegung im Japan der Meiji-Zeit by Maik Hendrik SprotteSven Saaler
- MN 58:4 (2003) 542–544Marxist History and Postwar Japanese Nationalism by Curtis Anderson GayleSebastian Conrad
- MN 58:4 (2003) 544–547Awesome Nightfall: The Life, Times, and Poetry of Saigyō by William R. LaFleurRichard A. Gardner
- MN 58:4 (2003) 547–550The Father-Daughter Plot: Japanese Literary Women and the Law of the Father by Rebecca L. Copeland, Esperanza Ramirez-ChristensenJanet A. Walker
- MN 58:4 (2003) 550–552Topographies of Japanese Modernism by Seiji M. LippitSusan Napier
- MN 58:4 (2003) 553–556Unhappy Soldier: Hino Ashihei and Japanese World War II Literature by David M. RosenfeldSeiji M. Lippit
- MN 58:4 (2003) 556–558Dodonaeus in Japan: Translation and the Scientific Mind in the Tokugawa Period by W. F. Vande Walle, Kazuhiko KasayaMichael R. Auslin
- MN 58:4 (2003) 558–561Religion and Society in Nineteenth-Century Japan: A Study of the Southern Kantō Region, Using Late Edo and Early Meiji Gazetteers by Helen HardacreNathalie Kouamé
- MN 58:4 (2003) 561–563Zen War Stories by Brian Daizen VictoriaRobert Kisala
- MN 58:4 (2003) 563–566The History of Japanese Photography by Anne Wilkes Tucker, Dana Friis-Hansen, Kaneko Ryūichi, Takeba Joe, Iizawa Kōtarō, Kinoshita NaoyukiJulia Adeney Thomas
- MN 58:4 (2003) 566–569An Ecological View of History: Japanese Civilization in the World Context by Umesao Tadao, Beth Cary, Harumi BefuBrett L. Walker
- MN 58:4 (2003) 569–571CorrespondenceMichael Lewis and Sandra Wilson