Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 54:4 (1999) 558–561Charisma and Community Formation in Medieval Japan: The Case of the Yugyō-ha (1300–1700) by S. A. ThorntonJanet R. Goodwin- MN 54:4 (1999) 561–564Nakatomi Harae Kunge: Purification and Enlightenment in Late-Heian Japan by Mark J. Teeuwen, Hendrik van der Veere; Traité sur l’inépuisable Lampe du Zen: Tōrei (1721–1792) et sa vision de l’eveil by Michel MohrThierry Jean Roboüam
- MN 54:4 (1999) 564–566Religions of Japan in Practice by George J. TanabeMark R. Mullins
- MN 54:4 (1999) 566–568Japanese Mandalas: Representations of Sacred Geography by Elizabeth ten GrotenhuisMimi Hall Yiengpruksawan
- MN 54:4 (1999) 569–571The Last Tosa: Iwasa Katsumochi Matabei, Bridge to Ukiyo-e by Sandy KitaLaura W. Allen
- MN 54:4 (1999) 571–573Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan by Jennifer RobertsonSabine Frühstück
- MN 54:4 (1999) 1999Monumenta Nipponica Volume 54, Number 4, 1999
MN 54:3 (1999) 305–31Bamboo Voice Peach Blossom: Speech, Silence, and Subjective ExperienceMatthew Mizenko- MN 54:3 (1999) 333–60Quest for a New Written Language: Western Rhetoric and the Genbun Itchi MovementMassimiliano Tomasi
- MN 54:3 (1999) 361–85Myth in Metamorphosis: Ancient and Medieval Versions of the Yamatotakeru LegendJun'ichi Isomae
- MN 54:3 (1999) 387–93Mastering HentaiganaAileen Gatten
- MN 54:3 (1999) 395–97Japan’s Protoindustrial Elite: The Economic Foundations of the Gōnō by Edward E. PrattKären Wigen
- MN 54:3 (1999) 397–99A History of Shōwa Japan, 1926–1989 by Takafusa Nakamura, Edwin WhenmouthJ. Victor Koschmann
- MN 54:3 (1999) 400–402A Diary of Darkness: The Wartime Diary of Kiyosawa Kiyoshi by Eugene Soviak, Kamiyama TamieSandra Wilson
- MN 54:3 (1999) 403–405Japan’s War Economy by Erich PauerSimon Partner
- MN 54:3 (1999) 405–408The Clear Mirror: A Chronicle of the Japanese Court during the Kamakura Period (1185–1333) by George W. PerkinsMichael G. Watson
- MN 54:3 (1999) 408–10Principles of Poetry (Shi no Genri) by Hagiwara Sakutarō, Chester C. I. Wang, Isamu P. FukuchiEmi Shimokawa
- MN 54:3 (1999) 410–12An Artless Art: The Zen Aesthetics of Shiga Naoya by Roy StarrsAnn Sherif
- MN 54:3 (1999) 413–15Righteous Cause or Tragic Folly: Changing Views of War in Modern Japanese Poetry by Steve RabsonJoan E. Ericson
- MN 54:3 (1999) 415–16Akai tori in den Jahren 1918/1919. Die Entstehung einer modernen japanischen Kinderzeitschrift by Britta WolderingHarald Fuess
- MN 54:3 (1999) 416–19La Supercherie dévoilée: Une réfutation du catholicisme au Japon au XVIIe siècle by Christόvão Ferreira, Jacques Proust, Marianne ProustMichael Cooper
- MN 54:3 (1999) 419–21Christianity Made in Japan: A Study of Indigenous Movements by Mark R. MullinsSusumu Shimazono
- MN 54:3 (1999) 422–24Tea of the Sages: The Art of Sencha by Patricia J. GrahamChristine M. E. Guth
- MN 54:3 (1999) 424–26Bicycle Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife by Robin M. LeBlancAnne E. Imamura
- MN 54:3 (1999) 427–29Office Ladies and Salaried Men: Power, Gender, and Work in Japanese Companies by Yuko OgasawaraLouella Matsunaga
- MN 54:3 (1999) 429–31The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture: Gender, Shifting Boundaries and Global Cultures by D. P. MartinezDoug Slaymaker
- MN 54:3 (1999) 431–34Japanstudien: Jahrbuch des Deutschen Instituts für Japanstudien der Philipp Franz von Siebold Stiftung. Vol. 10: “Japans neue Rolle in Asien” by Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien der Philipp Franz von Siebold StiftungHartwig Hummel
- MN 54:3 (1999) 1999Monumenta Nipponica Volume 54, Number 3, 1999
MN 54:2 (1999) 169–94Legends, Secrets, and Authority: Hachijō Kadensho and Early Modern NohEric C. Rath- MN 54:2 (1999) 195–215Izumi Kyōka’s Uta Andon: Between Anachronism and the Avant-gardeChiyoko Kawakami
- MN 54:2 (1999) 217–46Lost in the Cosmos and the Need to KnowRichard A. Gardner
- MN 54:2 (1999) 247–58Approaches to Ogyū Sorai: Translation and TransculturalizationW. J. Boot
- MN 54:2 (1999) 259–65“To Learn What Fear Was”: Comparative Studies at the AbyssIrmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
- MN 54:2 (1999) 267–69Japans Kurtisanen: Eine Kulturgeschichte der japanischen Meisterinnen der Unterhaltungskunst und Erotik aus zwölf Jahrhunderten by Michael SteinKlaus Vollmer
- MN 54:2 (1999) 270–72Le naturel selon Andō Shōeki: Un type de discours sur la nature et la spontanéité par un maître-confucéen de l’époque Tokugawa: Andō Shōeki (1703–1762) by Jacques JolyKarine Marandjian
- MN 54:2 (1999) 272–74The Junk Trade from Southeast Asia: Translations from the Tōsen Fusetsugaki, 1674–1723 by Yoneo IshiiWillem Remmelink
- MN 54:2 (1999) 274–76Zwischen Tradition und Moderne: Die Bewegung für den Fortbestand der Kanpō-Medizin in Japan by Christian OberländerYukiko Fujita
- MN 54:2 (1999) 276–78Frauen zwischen Rollenerwartung und Selbstdeutung: Ehe, Mutterschaft und Liebe im Spiegel der japanischen Frauenzeitschrift Shin shin fujin von 1913 bis 1916 by Ulrike WöhrHilaria Gössmann
- MN 54:2 (1999) 278–81Interpreting History in Sino-Japanese Relations: A Case Study in Decision-Making by Caroline RoseC. W. Braddick
- MN 54:2 (1999) 281–82Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan: The Works of Poet-Priest Kamo no Chōmei by Rajyashree PandeyMargaret H. Childs
- MN 54:2 (1999) 283–85Breeze Through Bamboo: Kanshi of Ema Saikō with Illustrations by the Poet by Hiroaki SatoRobert Campbell
- MN 54:2 (1999) 286–88The Similitude of Blossoms: A Critical Biography of Izumi Kyōka (1873–1939), Japanese Novelist and Playwright by Charles Shirō InouyeAngela Yiu
- MN 54:2 (1999) 289–90Européens & Japonais: Traité sur les contradictions & différences de moeurs, écrit par le R. P. Luís Fróis, au Japon, l’an 1585 by Luís Fróis, Xavier de CastroMichael Cooper
- MN 54:2 (1999) 290–92“La sieste sous l’aile du cormoran” et autres poèmes magiques: Prolégomènes à l’étude des concepts religieux du Japon by Hartmut O. RotermundRoyall Tyler
- MN 54:2 (1999) 292–93Women and Religion in Japan by Akiko Okuda, Haruko Okano, Alison WattsMark R. Mullins
- MN 54:2 (1999) 293–95The Culture of Japan as Seen through Its Leisure by Sepp Linhart, Sabine FrühstückCarolyn Stevens
- MN 54:2 (1999) 295–97About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater by Dorinne KondoMariko Asano Tamanoi
- MN 54:2 (1999) 299–302CorrespondencePeter Wetzler and Stephen S. Large