Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 55:2 (2000) 199–224The Pleasure Quarters of Edo and Nanjing as Metaphor: The Records of Yu Huai and Narushima RyūhokuEmanuel Pastreich
MN 55:1 (2000) 45–81Elegance, Prosperity, Crisis: Three Generations of Tokugawa Village ElitesBrian W. Platt
MN 54:4 (1999) 509–520Itō Jinsai and the Meanings of WordsI. J. McMullen
MN 53:3 (1998) 335–58Tokugawa Translations of Dutch Legal TextsF. B. Verwayen
MN 53:2 (1998) 197–223Abandoned Fields: Negotiating Taxes in the Bakufu DomainPatricia Sippel- MN 53:2 (1998) 257–63The Context of Everyday ThingsOsamu Saitō
MN 53:1 (1998) 73–104Digging for Edo: Archaeology and Japan’s Premodern Urban PastConstantine Nomikos Vaporis
MN 52:3 (1997) 357–80Severing the Karmic Ties that Bind: The “Divorce Temple” MantokujiDiana E. Wright
MN 52:1 (1997) 1–34Tokugawa Authority and Chinese Exemplars: The Teikan Zusetsu Murals of Nagoya CastleKaren M. Gerhart- MN 52:1 (1997) 85–102Obama: The Rise and Decline of a SeaportIsao Soranaka
MN 51:3 (1996) 279–307A Tour of Duty: Kurume Hanshi Edo Kinban Nagaya EmakiConstantine Nomikos Vaporis
MN 50:2 (1995) 137–70Off with Their Heads! The Hirata Disciples and the Ashikaga ShogunsAnne Walthall- MN 50:2 (1995) 189–234A Dutch New Year at the Shirandō Academy: 1 January 1795Reinier H. Hesselink
MN 49:3 (1994) 331–51The Assassination of Henry HeuskenReinier H. Hesselink
MN 49:1 (1994) 31–60She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not: Shinjū and Shikidō ŌkagamiLawrence Rogers- MN 49:1 (1994) 40–60ShinjūFujimoto Kizan, Translated by Lawrence Rogers
MN 48:4 (1993) 407–28The Strangest Place in Edo: The Temple of the Five Hundred ArhatsTimon Screech
MN 48:3 (1993) 293–314The Persecution of Confucianism in Early Tokugawa JapanBeatrice Bodart-Bailey
MN 48:2 (1993) 205–24Wasan and the Physics that Wasn’t: Mathematics in the Tokugawa PeriodMark Ravina
MN 47:2 (1992) 163–202Bonshōgatsu: Festivals and State Power in KanazawaJames L. McClain- MN 47:2 (1992) 194–202Bonshōgatsu NohTranslated by James L. McClain
- MN 47:2 (1992) 265–72The Brits in JapanMichael Cooper
MN 47:1 (1992) 1–25Opium, Expulsion, Sovereignty: China’s Lessons for Bakumatsu JapanBob Tadashi Wakabayashi- MN 47:1 (1992) 59–76Preindustrial River Conservancy: Causes and ConsequencesConrad Totman
MN 46:4 (1991) 483–512Both a Borrower and a Lender Be: From Village Moneylender to Rural Banker in the Tempō EraRonald P. Toby
MN 46:1 (1991) 91–103Japanese Castaways and British InterpretersW. G. Beasley
MN 45:2 (1990) 127–55Edo in 1868: The View from BelowM. William Steele- MN 45:2 (1990) 189–205The Japonian Charters: The English and Dutch ShuinjōDerek Massarella and Izumi K. Tytler
- MN 45:2 (1990) 207–28Meiji in the Rear-View Mirror: Top Down vs. Bottom Up HistoryF. G. Notehelfer
MN 44:4 (1989) 461–83Caveat Viator: Advice to Travelers in the Edo PeriodConstantine Nomikos Vaporis- MN 44:4 (1989) 469–83Ryokō YōjinshūYasumi Roan, Translated by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
MN 44:2 (1989) 199–219Persecuted Patriot: Watanabe Kazan and the Tokugawa BakufuBonnie Abiko
MN 43:3 (1988) 279–303Village Networks: Sōdai and the Sale of Edo NightsoilAnne Walthall
MN 43:1 (1988) 1–33Kaempfer Restor’dBeatrice M. Bodart Bailey
MN 42:2 (1987) 115–55The Mismeasure of Land: Land Surveying in the Tokugawa PeriodPhilip C. Brown
MN 41:4 (1986) 377–414Post Station and Assisting Villages: Corvée Labor and Peasant ContentionConstantine Nomikos Vaporis- MN 41:4 (1986) 415–56Carnival of the Aliens: Korean Embassies in Edo-Period Art and Popular CultureRonald P. Toby
- MN 41:4 (1986) 457–76Tokugawa Peasants: Win, Lose, or Draw?Conrad Totman
MN 41:3 (1986) 299–330The Samurai Disestablished: Abei Iwane and His StipendGeorge Akita and Masatoshi Sakeda
MN 40:2 (1985) 163–89The Laws of CompassionBeatrice Bodart-Bailey
MN 39:4 (1984) 371–92Peripheries: Rural Culture in Tokugawa JapanAnne Walthall
MN 39:3 (1984) 333–50Hakuseki’s Reading of HistoryHerman Ooms
MN 39:1 (1984) 1–10Land-Use Patterns and Afforestation in the Edo PeriodConrad Totman
MN 36:3 (1981) 299–316Against the Restoration: Katsu Kaishū’s Attempt to Reinstate the Tokugawa FamilyM. William Steele
MN 36:2 (1981) 173–86Apologia pro Vita Sua: Arai Hakuseki’s AutobiographyKate Wildman-Nakai
MN 35:1 (1980) 1–19From Sakoku to Kaikoku: The Transformation of Foreign-Policy Attitudes, 1853–1868Conrad Totman
MN 34:4 (1979) 383–407The Bakufu Looks Abroad: The 1865 Mission to FranceMark D. Ericson- MN 34:4 (1979) 467–78Councillor Defended: Matsukage Nikki and Yanagisawa YoshiyasuBeatrice Bodart-Bailey