Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 49:2 (1994) 240–41Voyages en d’autres mondes: Récits japonais du XVIe siècle by Jacqueline Pigeot, Kosugi KeikoRoyall Tyler- MN 49:2 (1994) 241–43Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees: A Masterpiece of the Eighteenth-Century Japanese Puppet Theater by Stanleigh H. Jones, Jr.Drew Gerstle
- MN 49:2 (1994) 244–45Modern Japanese Ceramics in American Collections by Frederick Baekeland, Robert MoesStephen Addiss
- MN 49:2 (1994) 245–47Kimono: Fashioning Culture by Liza Crihfield DalbySharon Sadako Takeda
- MN 49:2 (1994) 247–49Rice as Self: Japanese Identities through Time by Emiko Ohnuki-TierneyAnn Waswo
- MN 49:2 (1994) 249–51Japan’s Political Marketplace by J. Mark Ramseyer, Frances McCall RosenbluthE. B. Keehn
- MN 49:2 (1994) 252–55Alms and Vagabonds: Buddhist Temples and Popular Patronage in Medieval Japan by Janet R. GoodwinIan Reader
- MN 49:2 (1994) 255–57Religion and Society in Modern Japan: Selected Readings by Mark R. Mullins, Shimazono Susumu, Paul L. SwansonCharles H. Hambrick
- MN 49:2 (1994) 259Corrigendum
- MN 49:2 (1994) 258–59Matsuri: Festivals of a Japanese Town by Michael AshkenaziC. Scott Littleton
- MN 49:2 (1994) 1994Monumenta Nipponica Volume 49, Number 2, 1994
MN 49:1 (1994) 11–29Hitachi no Kuni Fudoki (Translation)Translated by Mark C. Funke- MN 49:1 (1994) 1–29Hitachi no Kuni FudokiMark C. Funke
- MN 49:1 (1994) 40–60ShinjūFujimoto Kizan, Translated by Lawrence Rogers
- MN 49:1 (1994) 31–60She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not: Shinjū and Shikidō ŌkagamiLawrence Rogers
- MN 49:1 (1994) 61–74Cultural Survey, 1993
- MN 49:1 (1994) 75–87A Celebration of ArtPatricia J. Graham
- MN 49:1 (1994) 89–95Different StrokesDavid Pollack
- MN 49:1 (1994) 97–99The Willow in Autumn: Ryūtei Tanehiko, 1783–1842 by Andrew Lawrence MarkusSusan Griswold
- MN 49:1 (1994) 99–102New Leaves: Studies and Translations of Japanese Literature in Honor of Edward Seidensticker by Aileen Gatten, Anthony Hood ChambersKaren Brazell
- MN 49:1 (1994) 102–105Complicit Fictions: The Subject in the Modern Japanese Prose Narrative by James A. FujiiIrmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
- MN 49:1 (1994) 105–108Early Modern Japan by Conrad TotmanConstantine Nomikos Vaporis
- MN 49:1 (1994) 108–12Japan’s Orient: Rendering Pasts into History by Stefan TanakaJoshua A. Fogel
- MN 49:1 (1994) 112–14China, 1898–1912: The Xinzheng Revolution and Japan by Douglas R. ReynoldsLinda Grove
- MN 49:1 (1994) 114–16The Cross and the Rising Sun. Volume 2, The British Protestant Movement in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, 1865–1945 by A. Hamish IonHelen J. Ballhatchet
- MN 49:1 (1994) 116–19Six Circles, One Dewdrop: The Religio-aesthetic World of Komparu Zenchiku by Arthur H. Thornhill IIIShelley Fenno Quinn
- MN 49:1 (1994) 120–21Japanese Nō Dramas by Royall TylerThomas W. Hare
- MN 49:1 (1994) 121–23Warrior Ghost Plays from the Japanese Noh Theater: Parallel Translations with Running Commentary by Chifumi ShimazakiRebecca Teele
- MN 49:1 (1994) 123–25Transformations, Miracles, and Mischief: The Mountain Priest Plays of Kyōgen by Carolyn Anne MorleyStanca Scholz-Cionca
- MN 49:1 (1994) 125–27Kano Eitoku (1543–1590), Biographie, Oeuvre und Wirkung nach Zeugnissen des 16.-19. Jahrhunderts: eine quellen- und stilkritische Untersuchung by Kano Eitoku, Bettina KleinClaudia Delank
- MN 49:1 (1994) 127–29Art, Tea, and Industry: Masuda Takashi and the Mitsui Circle by Christine M. E. GuthFrederick Baekeland
- MN 49:1 (1994) 129–31When Art Became Fashion: Kosode in Edo-Period Japan by Dale Carolyn Gluckman, Sharon Sadako TakedaRobin E. Muller
- MN 49:1 (1994) 131–33Myōe the Dreamkeeper: Fantasy and Knowledge in Early Kamakura Buddhism by George J. Tanabe, Jr.James H. Foard
- MN 49:1 (1994) 133–35Sōtō Zen in Medieval Japan by William M. BodifordBernard Faure
- MN 49:1 (1994) 136–37Voluntary Death in Japan by Maurice Pinguet, Rosemary MorrisStuart D. B. Picken
- MN 49:1 (1994) 1994Monumenta Nipponica Volume 49, Number 1, 1994
MN 48:4 (1993) 407–28The Strangest Place in Edo: The Temple of the Five Hundred ArhatsTimon Screech- MN 48:4 (1993) 429–67The Meaning of Matrilocality: Kinship, Property, and Politics in Mid-HeianPeter Nickerson
- MN 48:4 (1993) 469–88Kokoro and ‘the Spirit of Meiji’Isamu Fukuchi
- MN 48:4 (1993) 489–91Origins of Modern Japanese Literature by Kōjin Karatani, Brett de BaryCharles Shirō Inouye
- MN 48:4 (1993) 491–93Three Modern Novelists: Sōseki, Tanizaki, Kawabata by Van C. GesselSusan J. Napier
- MN 48:4 (1993) 493–96The Writings of Kōda Aya, a Japanese Literary Daughter by Alan M. TansmanAnn Sherif
- MN 48:4 (1993) 496–99Rats’ Nests: The Collected Poetry of Hagiwara Sakutarō by Robert EppSarah M. Strong
- MN 48:4 (1993) 499–501Ambivalent Moderns: Portraits of Japanese Cultural Identity by Lawrence OlsonShun’ichi H. Takayanagi
- MN 48:4 (1993) 501–504Confucian Values and Popular Zen: Sekimon Shingaku in Eighteenth-Century Japan by Janine Anderson SawadaJohn Allen Tucker
- MN 48:4 (1993) 504–506Japan Through American Eyes: The Journal of Francis Hall, Kanagawa and Yokohama, 1859–1866 by F. G. NotehelferJames L. Huffman
- MN 48:4 (1993) 506–509The Autobiography of Ōsugi Sakae by Byron K. MarshallRichard H. Mitchell
- MN 48:4 (1993) 509–510Japan’s Struggle with Internationalism: Japan, China and the League of Nations, 1931–1933 by Ian NishE. Bruce Reynolds