Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
Monumenta Nipponica Volume 72, Number 1 (2017)- MN 72:1 (2017) 1–30Shifting Perspectives on the Shogunate’s Last Years: Gountei Sadahide’s Bird’s-Eye View Landscape PrintsFumiko Sugimoto and Michael Burtscher
- MN 72:1 (2017) 51–70My Izumo, My Requiem (Part 1)Scott Mehl, Translated by Scott Mehl, Original by Yasuo Irisawa
- MN 72:1 (2017) 71–73Rice, Agriculture, and the Food Supply in Premodern Japan by Charlotte von Verschuer, trans. and ed. Wendy CobcroftPhilip C. Brown
- MN 72:1 (2017) 74–76Reading “The Tale of Genji”: Sources from the First Millennium ed. Thomas Harper, Haruo ShiraneLawrence E. Marceau
- MN 72:1 (2017) 76–83The Dream of Christian Nagasaki: World Trade and the Clash of Cultures, 1560–1640 by Reinier H. HesselinkLane R. Earns
- MN 72:1 (2017) 84–87Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability by Morgan PitelkaTimon Screech
- MN 72:1 (2017) 87–91The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan by Marcia YonemotoAnne Walthall
- MN 72:1 (2017) 92–95The Ryukyu Kingdom: Cornerstone of East Asia by Mamoru Akamine, trans. Lina Terrell, ed. Robert HueyGregory Smits
- MN 72:1 (2017) 95–99Street Performers and Society in Urban Japan, 1600–1900: The Beggar’s Gift by Gerald GroemerLaura Nenzi
- MN 72:1 (2017) 100–104Edo Kabuki in Transition: From the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Female Ghost by Satoko Shimazaki; Onnagata: A Labyrinth of Gendering in Kabuki Theater by Maki IsakaC. Andrew Gerstle
- MN 72:1 (2017) 105–109Values, Identity and Equality in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Japan ed. Peter Nosco, James E. Ketelaar, Yasunori KojimaAnnick Horiuchi
- MN 72:1 (2017) 110–13Network of Knowledge: Western Science and the Tokugawa Information Revolution by Terrence JacksonNiels van Steenpaal
- MN 72:1 (2017) 114–18Like No Other: Exceptionalism and Nativism in Early Modern Japan by Mark Thomas McNallyKiri Paramore
- MN 72:1 (2017) 119–23Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps ed. Kären Wigen, Sugimoto Fumiko, Cary KaracasTodd Stradford
- MN 72:1 (2017) 123–25Japanese Prostitutes in the North American West, 1887–1920 by Kazuhiro OharazekiBill Mihalopoulos
- MN 72:1 (2017) 126–28The Youth of Things: Life and Death in the Age of Kajii Motojirō by Stephen DoddEve Zimmerman
- MN 72:1 (2017) 128–33The Rhetoric of Photography in Modern Japanese Literature: Materiality in the Visual Register as Narrated by Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, Abe Kōbō, Horie Toshiyuki, and Kanai Mieko by Atsuko SakakiMark Silver
- MN 72:1 (2017) 134–38Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice by Barak KushnerTorsten Weber
- MN 72:1 (2017) 138–41Drahtseilakte: Der junge Kenzaburō Ōe by Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Christoph HeldAsa-Bettina Wuthenow
- MN 72:1 (2017) 142–45The China Problem in Postwar Japan: Japanese National Identity and Sino-Japanese Relations by Robert HoppensKarl Gustafsson
- MN 72:1 (2017) 146–52The Strange Child: Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary Japan by Andrea Gevurtz AraiEdward Vickers