Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 70:2 (2015) 306–309The Princess Nun: Bunchi, Buddhist Reform, and Gender in Early Edo Japan by Gina CoganG. G. Rowley- MN 70:2 (2015) 309–14Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan ed. Matthias Hayek, Annick HoriuchiBrian W. Platt
- MN 70:2 (2015) 314–21Seismic Japan: The Long History and Continuing Legacy of the Ansei Edo Earthquake by Gregory Smits; When the Earth Roars: Lessons from the History of Earthquakes in Japan by Gregory SmitsM. William Steele
- MN 70:2 (2015) 321–26Lost and Found: Recovering Regional Identity in Imperial Japan by Hiraku ShimodaJames L. Huffman
- MN 70:2 (2015) 326–28Empire of the Dharma: Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877–1912 by Hwansoo Ilmee KimJames Mark Shields
- MN 70:2 (2015) 329–31The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo by Ian Jared MillerMartha Chaiklin
- MN 70:2 (2015) 331–36Painting Nature for the Nation: Taki Katei and the Challenges to Sinophile Culture in Meiji Japan by Rosina BucklandAida Yuen Wong
- MN 70:2 (2015) 336–41An Imperial Path to Modernity: Yoshino Sakuzō and a New Liberal Order in East Asia, 1905–1937 by Jung-Sun N. HanPaul E. Dunscomb
- MN 70:2 (2015) 341–44In Transit: The Formation of the Colonial East Asian Cultural Sphere by Faye Yuan KleemanJohn Whittier Treat
- MN 70:2 (2015) 345–48Public Properties: Museums in Imperial Japan by Noriko AsoKendall H. Brown
- MN 70:2 (2015) 348–51On the Margins of Empire: Buraku and Korean Identity in Prewar and Wartime Japan by Jeffrey Paul BaylissKristine Dennehy
- MN 70:2 (2015) 352–56Making Tea, Making Japan: Cultural Nationalism in Practice by Kristin SurakNancy Stalker
- MN 70:2 (2015) 356–62The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema by Daisuke MiyaoDiane Wei Lewis
- MN 70:2 (2015) 363–67The Gods Left First: The Captivity and Repatriation of Japanese POWs in Northeast Asia, 1945–1956 by Andrew E. BarshayLori Watt
- MN 70:2 (2015) 367–71Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics by Yuriko FuruhataMariko Shigeta Schimmel
- MN 70:2 (2015) 371–76Precarious Japan by Anne AllisonDaniel White
- MN 70:2 (2015) 2015Monumenta Nipponica Volume 70, Number 2, 2015
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 70:1 (2015) 83–122Shipwrecks and Flotsam: The Foreign World in Edo-Period TosaLuke S. Roberts
- MN 70:1 (2015) 123–27Man’yōshū and the Imperial Imagination in Early Japan by Torquil DuthieH. Mack Horton
- MN 70:1 (2015) 127–32Ise, poétesse et dame de cour by Renée GardeMichel Vieillard-Baron
- MN 70:1 (2015) 132–35The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan by Adam ClulowBruce L. Batten
- MN 70:1 (2015) 135–41Government by Mourning: Death and Political Integration in Japan, 1603–1912 by Atsuko HiraiMark Teeuwen
- MN 70:1 (2015) 141–45Mabiki: Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660–1950 by Fabian DrixlerWilliam Johnston
- MN 70:1 (2015) 146–51The Bunraku Puppet Theatre of Japan: Honor, Vengeance, and Love in Four Plays of the 18th and 19th Centuries by Stanleigh H. Jones; Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater by R. Keller KimbroughKatherine Saltzman-Li
- MN 70:1 (2015) 151–55Hell-bent for Heaven in Tateyama Mandara: Painting and Religious Practice at a Japanese Mountain by Caroline HirasawaElizabeth ten Grotenhuis
- MN 70:1 (2015) 155–58Lust, Commerce, and Corruption: An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard, by an Edo Samurai trans. Mark Teeuwen, Kate Wildman Nakai, Miyazaki Fumiko, Anne Walthall, John BreenLaura Nenzi
- MN 70:1 (2015) 159–63Crossing Boundaries in Tokugawa Society: Suzuki Bokushi, A Rural Elite Commoner by Takeshi MoriyamaNiels van Steenpaal
- MN 70:1 (2015) 163–69The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature by Michael EmmerichDennis Washburn
- MN 70:1 (2015) 170–73Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan by Sho KonishiCurtis Anderson Gayle
- MN 70:1 (2015) 173–75Refining Nature in Modern Japanese Literature: The Life and Art of Shiga Naoya by Nanyan GuoJoseph S. O'Leary
- MN 70:1 (2015) 175–83Public Opinion, Propaganda, Ideology: Theories on the Press and Its Social Function in Interwar Japan, 1918–1937 by Fabian SchäferSimone Müller
- MN 70:1 (2015) 183–87Money, Trains, and Guillotines: Art and Revolution in 1960s Japan by William MarottiMiki Kaneda
- MN 70:1 (2015) 2015Monumenta Nipponica Volume 70, Number 1, 2015
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 69:2 (2014) 221–54Japan’s Inca Boom: Global Archaeology and the Making of a Postwar NationMiriam L. Kingsberg Kadia
- MN 69:2 (2014) 255–59Medicine Master Buddha: The Iconic Worship of Yakushi in Heian Japan by Yui SuzukiYoko Hsueh Shirai
- MN 69:2 (2014) 259–63A Buddhist Theory of Semiotics: Signs, Ontology, and Salvation in Japanese Esoteric Buddhism by Fabio RambelliMark Teeuwen
- MN 69:2 (2014) 263–72The Seven Tengu Scrolls: Evil and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy in Medieval Japanese Buddhism by Haruko WakabayashiMark L. Blum
- MN 69:2 (2014) 272–75Japanese Travellers in Sixteenth-Century Europe: A Dialogue Concerning the Mission of the Japanese Ambassadors to the Roman Curia (1590) ed. Derek MassarellaJan C. Leuchtenberger
- MN 69:2 (2014) 275–77Conquering Demons: The “Kirishitan,” Japan, and the World in Early Modern Japanese Literature by Jan C. LeuchtenbergerPeter Nosco
- MN 69:2 (2014) 278–83Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan by Amy StanleyDavid Eason
- MN 69:2 (2014) 284–91Ōoku: The Secret World of the Shogun’s Women by Cecilia Segawa Seigle, Linda H. ChanceAnne Walthall
- MN 69:2 (2014) 292–94An Edo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Mega-City, 1750–1850 ed. Sumie Jones, Kenji WatanabeLawrence E. Marceau
- MN 69:2 (2014) 295–301Two-Timing Modernity: Homosocial Narrative in Modern Japanese Fiction by J. Keith VincentHosea Hirata
- MN 69:2 (2014) 301–305Views of the Dark Valley: Japanese Cinema and the Culture of Nationalism 1937–1945 by Harald SalomonMichael Baskett