Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
Monumenta Nipponica Volume 59, Number 1 (2004)- MN 59:1 (2004) 1–34Visions of the Dead: Kano Tan’yū’s Paintings of Tokugawa Iemitsu’s DreamsKaren M. Gerhart
- MN 59:1 (2004) 35–82Living Icons: “Reizō” Myths of the Saikoku Kannon PilgrimageMark MacWilliams
- MN 59:1 (2004) 83–119An Extraordinary Odyssey: The Iwakura Embassy TranslatedF. G. Notehelfer, Igor R. Saveliev and W. F. Vande Walle
- MN 59:1 (2004) 121–26Farmers and Village Life in Twentieth Century Japan by Ann Waswo, Nishida YoshiakiNeil L. Waters
- MN 59:1 (2004) 126–29Nation and Nationalism in Japan by Sandra WilsonKurt Werner Radtke
- MN 59:1 (2004) 129–31The New Japanese Woman: Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan by Barbara SatoDavid R. Ambaras
- MN 59:1 (2004) 131–34Unfinished Business: Ayukawa Yoshisuke and U.S.-Japan Relations, 1937–1953 by Haruo IguchiYoshihisa Tak Matsusaka
- MN 59:1 (2004) 134–37War, Occupation, and Creativity: Japan and East Asia, 1920–1960 by Marlene J. Mayo, J. Thomas Rimer, H. Eleanor KerkhamJames Dorsey
- MN 59:1 (2004) 138–40Theatricalities of Power: The Cultural Politics of Noh by Steven T. BrownNoel J. Pinnington
- MN 59:1 (2004) 140–43Japanese Tea Culture: Art, History, Practice by Morgan PitelkaChristine M. E. Guth
- MN 59:1 (2004) 143–45Autobiography of a Geisha by Sayo Masuda, G. G. RowleySimon Partner
- MN 59:1 (2004) 145–48The Rules of Play: National Identity and the Shaping of Japanese Leisure by David LehenyWolfram Manzenreiter
- MN 59:1 (2004) 148–51Children of the Japanese State: The Changing Role of Child Protection Institutions in Contemporary Japan by Roger Goodman; Can the Japanese Change Their Education System? by Roger Goodman, David PhillipsSusanne Kreitz-Sandberg