Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
Monumenta Nipponica Volume 59, Number 3 (2004)- MN 59:3 (2004) 285–319Cultured Travelers and Consumer Tourists in Edo-Period SagamiLaura Nenzi
- MN 59:3 (2004) 321–58A Voice of the Tenpō Era: The Poetics of Ōkuma KotomichiRoger K. Thomas
- MN 59:3 (2004) 337–58MonologueKotomichi Ōkuma, Translated by Roger K. Thomas
- MN 59:3 (2004) 359–89Teika and the Others: Poetics, Poetry, and Politics in Early Medieval JapanIvo Smits
- MN 59:3 (2004) 391–94Meiji Music in BerlinJ. Scott Miller
- MN 59:3 (2004) 395–97An Archaeological History of Japan 30,000 B.C. to A.D. 700 by Koji MizoguchiWalter Edwards
- MN 59:3 (2004) 398–400Notes journalières de Fujiwara no Sukefusa: Traduction du Shunki by Francine HérailRoyall Tyler
- MN 59:3 (2004) 400–403Private Academies of Chinese Learning in Meiji Japan: The Decline and Transformation of the Kangaku Juku by Margaret MehlBrian W. Platt
- MN 59:3 (2004) 403–406The Rising Sun and the Turkish Crescent: New Perspectives on the History of Japanese Turkish Relations by Selçuk Esenbel, Inaba ChiharuIgor R. Saveliev
- MN 59:3 (2004) 406–409Alternative Narratives in Modern Japanese History by M. William SteeleKerry Smith
- MN 59:3 (2004) 409–11Wer war Takeuchi Yoshimis Lu Xun? Ein Annäherungsversuch an ein Monument der japanischen Sinologie by Christian UhlHans Martin Krämer
- MN 59:3 (2004) 411–14Just Living: Poems and Prose by the Japanese Monk Tonna by Steven D. CarterLinda H. Chance
- MN 59:3 (2004) 414–16Far Beyond the Field: Haiku by Japanese Women by Makoto UedaAnne Walthall
- MN 59:3 (2004) 416–18“Berichte über Gesehenes und Gehörtes aus der Ansei-Zeit” (Ansei kemmonshi): Kanagaki Robuns (1829–1894) Bericht über das grosse Ansei-Erdbeben 1855 als Repräsentant des Genres der “Katastrophendarstellungen” by Stephan Köhn; Das “Ehon Muro no Yashima” (1808): Edition und Analyse eines Kamigatayomihon by Ekkehard May, Martina Schönbein, Claudia Waltermann; Edo bunko: Die Edo Bibliothek by Ekkehard May, Martina Schönbein, John Schmitt-WeigandPeter F. Kornicki
- MN 59:3 (2004) 418–21Shinto: A Short History by Inoue Nobutaka, Ito Satoshi, Endo Jun, Mori Mizue, Mark Teeuwen, John BreenEdmund T. Gilday
- MN 59:3 (2004) 421–24Chikubushima: Deploying the Sacred Arts in Momoyama Japan by Andrew M. WatskyGregory Levine
- MN 59:3 (2004) 425–27Die Inszenierung der kulturellen Identität in Japan: Das Beispiel der Olympischen Spiele Tōkyō 1964 by Christian TagsoldAndreas Niehaus
- MN 59:3 (2004) 427–29Schreiben und Erinnern: Über Selbstzeugnisse japanischer Kriegsteilnehmer by Petra BuchholzFranziska Seraphim
- MN 59:3 (2004) 430Comment: The Iwakura Embassy in RussiaPeter F. Kornicki