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Monumenta Nipponica Volume 59, Number 4 (2004)- MN 59:4 (2004) 431–61Early Buddhist Kanshi: Court, Country, and KūkaiPaul Rouzer
- MN 59:4 (2004) 463–92Slavery in Medieval JapanThomas Nelson
- MN 59:4 (2004) 493–524Edo-Period Tales of the Healing Jizō Bodhisattva: A Translation of “Enmei Jizōson Inkō Riyakuki”Duncan Ryūken Williams
- MN 59:4 (2004) 525–533Paradigm Regained: Taking Syncretism SeriouslyD. Max Moerman
- MN 59:4 (2004) 535–538The Moneylenders of Late Medieval Kyoto by Suzanne GayAndrew Edmund Goble
- MN 59:4 (2004) 538–541Pre-Industrial Korea and Japan in Environmental Perspective by Conrad TotmanBruce L. Batten
- MN 59:4 (2004) 541–543Frontier Contact between Chosŏn Korea and Tokugawa Japan by James B. LewisDavid L. Howell
- MN 59:4 (2004) 544–546Japans Karneval der Krise: Ējanaika und die Meiji-Renovation by Reinhard ZöllnerKlaus Antoni
- MN 59:4 (2004) 547–549Divorce in Japan: Family, Gender, and the State, 1600–2000 by Harald FuessGail Lee Bernstein
- MN 59:4 (2004) 549–552A Vision of Empire: Kita Ikki and the Making of Modern Japan by Brij TankhaBen-Ami Shillony
- MN 59:4 (2004) 552–555Novel Japan: Spaces of Nationhood in Early Meiji Narrative, 1870–88 by John Pierre MertzRichard Torrance
- MN 59:4 (2004) 555–558The Dawn That Never Comes: Shimazaki Tōson and Japanese Nationalism by Michael K. BourdaghsChia-Ning Chang
- MN 59:4 (2004) 558–561Under an Imperial Sun: Japanese Colonial Literature of Taiwan and the South by Faye Yuan KleemanMichael Molasky
- MN 59:4 (2004) 562–565Bodies of Evidence: Women, Society, and Detective Fiction in 1990s Japan by Amanda C. SeamanSharalyn Orbaugh
- MN 59:4 (2004) 565–567Orienting Arthur Waley: Japonism, Orientalism, and the Creation of Japanese Literature in English by John Walter de GruchyMachiko Midorikawa
- MN 59:4 (2004) 567–569The Prints of Isoda Koryūsai: Floating World Culture and Its Consumers in Eighteenth-Century Japan by Allen HockleyVictoria Weston
- MN 59:4 (2004) 569–572Japan’s Modern Theatre: A Century of Continuity and Change by Brian PowellPeter Eckersall
- MN 59:4 (2004) 572–575Working Out in Japan: Shaping the Female Body in Tokyo Fitness Clubs by Laura SpielvogelWolfram Manzenreiter
- MN 59:4 (2004) 576Errata