Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 78:2 (2023) 157–87Before the Storm: A Transrealm History of the Decades Leading Up to the First Mongol Invasion of JapanLina Nie- MN 78:2 (2023) 189–221Traces of Truth: Chūgan Engetsu’s KonhōronBrendan Arkell Morley
MN 77:1 (2022) 1–26Versifying for Others: Akazome Emon’s Proxy PoemsTakeshi Watanabe- MN 77:1 (2022) 27–75Jesuit Printing and Hiragana BooksTakahiro Sasaki
MN 76:1 (2021) 1–68The Tragedy of Quabacondono: An Elizabethan Account of the Last Days of Toyotomi HidetsugiLiam Matthew Brockey and Jurgis Saulius Algirdas Elisonas
MN 75:2 (2020) 205–39Visualizing Hungry Ghosts in Heian Japan: Gakizōshi Scrolls as “Translation”Haruko Wakabayashi- MN 75:2 (2020) 241–79An Entrepreneurial Aristocrat: Matsugi Hisanao and the Forging of Imperial Service in Late Medieval JapanPaula R. Curtis
MN 75:1 (2020) 1–44A Format of Their Own: The Hundred-Poem Sequences of Sone no Yoshitada, Minamoto no Shitagō, and the Priest EgyōRoselee Bundy
MN 74:2 (2019) 173–209How to Establish a Poetic School in Early Medieval Japan: Fujiwara no Shunzei’s Man’yōshū JidaikōMalgorzata Karolina Citko- MN 74:2 (2019) 201–209Reflections on the Man’yōshū EraFujiwara no Shunzei, Translated by Malgorzata Karolina Citko and Kei Umeda
- MN 74:2 (2019) 211–48Casting Spells: Combat Charms and Secret Scrolls in the Warrior Fiction of Late Medieval JapanR. Keller Kimbrough
MN 74:1 (2019) 33–57War without Blood? The Literary Uses of a Taboo Fluid in Heike MonogatariVyjayanthi R. Selinger- MN 74:1 (2019) 1–32Unearthing Lost Memories: A Reexamination of the Role of Naniwa in Early JapanJoshua Frydman
MN 73:2 (2018) 187–212Why Were There No Severe Famines in Fourteenth-Century Japan? Social Change, Resilience, and Climatic CoolingKeisuke Itō and Paula R. Curtis
MN 72:2 (2017) 153–87Cultural Knowledge and Professional Training in the Poetic Treatises of Late Heian JapanAriel Stilerman- MN 72:2 (2017) 189–222Illustrated Debate over Wine and Rice (Shuhanron Emaki) : Dining and Socializing in Late Muromachi JapanCharlotte von Verschuer
MN 71:2 (2016) 263–93Mothers of the Buddhas: The Sutra on Transforming Women into Buddhas (Bussetsu Tennyo Jōbutsu Kyō) Heather Blair- MN 71:2 (2016) 295–369A Translation of Sōgi’s Oi no Susami (Part 2) : A Solace in Old AgeSteven D. Carter
MN 71:1 (2016) 1–42Readings from the Bamboo Grove: A Translation of Sōgi’s Oi no Susami (Part 1)Steven D. Carter- MN 71:1 (2016) 29–42A Solace in Old Age (Part 1)Sōgi, Translated by Steven D. Carter
MN 70:2 (2015) 189–235Yoshino and the Politics of Cultural Topography in Early JapanTorquil Duthie
MN 70:1 (2015) 1–38Disaster in the Making: Taira no Kiyomori’s Move of the Capital to FukuharaHaruko Wakabayashi- MN 70:1 (2015) 39–81Warrior/Monk, Demon/Saint: Humor and Parody in the Late Medieval Tale of BenkeiRoberta Strippoli
MN 69:2 (2014) 153–219Localizing Strategies: Eison and the Shōtoku Taishi CultDavid Quinter- MN 69:2 (2014) 199–219Prince Shōtoku Ceremonial: Eison’s Shōtoku Taishi kōshikiEison, Translated by David Quinter
MN 69:1 (2014) 1–54A Medieval Warrior in Early Modern Japan: A Translation of the Otogizōshi Hōgan Miyako BanashiMathew W. Thompson- MN 69:1 (2014) 15–54Hōgan Miyako Banashi: The Tale of Yoshitsune in the CapitalMathew W. Thompson, Translated by Mathew W. Thompson
MN 68:2 (2013) 163–206The Early History of the Noh Play: Literacy, Authorship, and ScriptednessNoel J. Pinnington
MN 68:1 (2013) 69–77Translating the Corpus of Ancient Japanese LawHerman Ooms- MN 68:1 (2013) 79–88Of Allochthons and Alibis: Otherworldly Ideologies in Seventh- and Eighth-Century JapanDavid B. Lurie
MN 67:2 (2012) 201–38Gendering the Court Woman Poet: Pedigree and Portrayal in Fukuro zōshiRoselee Bundy- MN 67:2 (2012) 239–62Conflating Monastic and Imperial Lineage: The Retired Emperors’ Period ReformulatedMikael Bauer
- MN 67:2 (2012) 263–82The Dōshu: Clerics at Work in Early Medieval Japanese MonasteriesMikael S. Adolphson
MN 66:1 (2011) 1–47Zaō Gongen: From Mountain Icon to National TreasureHeather Blair
MN 65:1 (2010) 137–47Domesticating Kagerō: A Love That Dares Speak Its NameJoshua S. Mostow
MN 64:2 (2009) 273–313Predators, Protectors, and Purveyors: Pirates and Commerce in Late Medieval JapanPeter D. Shapinsky- MN 64:2 (2009) 337–62Demographic Estimates and the Issue of Staple Food in Early JapanCharlotte von Verschuer
MN 64:1 (2009) 1–52The Lamp-Oil Merchants of Iwashimizu Shrine: Transregional Commerce in Medieval JapanSuzanne Gay
MN 63:1 (2008) 143–60Reading a Heian Blog: A New Translation of Makura no SōshiMachiko Midorikawa
MN 62:4 (2007) 397–435Pieces in a Puzzle: Changing Approaches to the Shōsōin DocumentsWilliam Wayne Farris- MN 62:4 (2007) 437–79Creating Bodhisattvas: Eison, Hinin, and the “Living Mañjuśrī”David Quinter
MN 62:2 (2007) 135–77Female Readers and Early Heian Romances: The Hakubyō Tales of Ise Illustrated Scroll FragmentsJoshua S. Mostow
MN 61:4 (2006) 437–57Fujiwara Seika and the Great LearningRichard Bowring
MN 61:3 (2006) 283–338Coercive Sex in the Medieval Japanese Court: Lady Nijō’s MemoirHitomi Tonomura
MN 61:2 (2006) 131–92Solo Poetry Contest as Poetic Self-Portrait: The One-Hundred-Round Contest of Lord Teika’s Own Poems (Part 2)Roselee Bundy- MN 61:2 (2006) 219–26The Profane Wars of the Heavenly Warriors: Reassessing Medieval WarfareReinhard Zöllner
MN 61:1 (2006) 1–58Solo Poetry Contest as Poetic Self-Portrait: The One-Hundred-Round Contest of Lord Teika’s Own Poems (Part 1)Roselee Bundy
MN 60:4 (2005) 437–79Gender in Early Classical Japan: Marriage, Leadership, and Political Status in Village and PalaceAkiko Yoshie and Janet R. Goodwin