Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 36:4 (1981) 472–74Rebellion and Democracy in Meiji Japan: A Study of Commoners in the Popular Rights Movement by Roger W. BowenStephen Vlastos- MN 36:4 (1981) 475Kaga: A Domain Which Changed Slowly by Robert G. Flershem, Yoshiko N. FlershemH. J. Jones
- MN 36:4 (1981) 476–79The Chinese and the Japanese: Essays in Political and Cultural Interactions by Akira IriyeLinda Grove
- MN 36:4 (1981) 479–82Education and Equality in Japan by William K. CummingsJohn Singleton
- MN 36:4 (1981) 482–83Nichiren: Selected Writings by Laurel Rasplica RoddDavid W. Chappell
- MN 36:4 (1981) 484–85Notes on Once-calling and Many-calling: A Translation of Shinran’s Ichinen-tanen mon’i by Yoshifumi UedaPaul O. Ingram
- MN 36:4 (1981) 485–86East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan: Varieties of Medical Experience by Margaret M. LockArthur Kleinman
- MN 36:4 (1981) 1981Monumenta Nipponica Volume 36, Number 4, 1981
Monographs (1981) 1–156Tales of Samurai Honor: Buke Giri MonogatariIhara Saikaku, Translated by Caryl Callahan
Monographs (1981) 1–171The Laws of the Muromachi Bakufu: Kemmu Shikimoku (1336) and Muromachi Bakufu TsuikahōEdited by Kenneth A. Grossberg, Translated by Kenneth A. Grossberg and Nobuhisa Kanamoto
MN 36:3 (1981) 235–84Edo Architecture and Tokugawa LawWilliam H. Coaldrake- MN 36:3 (1981) 285–98The Two Shizukas: Zeami’s Futari ShizukaJacqueline Mueller
- MN 36:3 (1981) 289–98Futari ShizukaZeami Kanze Motokiyo, Translated by Jacqueline Mueller
- MN 36:3 (1981) 299–316Against the Restoration: Katsu Kaishū’s Attempt to Reinstate the Tokugawa FamilyM. William Steele
- MN 36:3 (1981) 317–28The Occupation of Japan as History: Some Recent ResearchRay A. Moore
- MN 36:3 (1981) 329–34New Religions for OldHarry Byron Earhart
- MN 36:3 (1981) 335–40On Linguistic DowsingGuenther Wenck
- MN 36:3 (1981) 341–43The Poetic Memoirs of Lady Daibu by Phillip Tudor HarriesKenneth L. Richard
- MN 36:3 (1981) 344–47Japan Before Tokugawa: Political Consolidation and Economic Growth, 1500 to 1650 by John Whitney Hall, Nagahara Keiji, Kozo YamamuraConrad Totman
- MN 36:3 (1981) 347–48Japan and Its World: Two Centuries of Change by Marius B. JansenAkira Iriye
- MN 36:3 (1981) 349–50Schooldays in Imperial Japan: A Study in the Culture of a Student Elite by Donald T. RodenAnn Waswo
- MN 36:3 (1981) 351–53Japan’s Commission on the Constitution: The Final Report by John M. MakiTheodore McNelly
- MN 36:3 (1981) 353–55Record of Things Heard from the Treasury of the Eye of the True Teaching: The Shōbōgenzō-zuimonki, talks of Zen master Dōgen, as recorded by Zen master Ejō by Thomas ClearyT. James Kodera
- MN 36:3 (1981) 355–57Kabuki Encyclopedia: An English-Language Adaptation of Kabuki Jiten by Samuel L. LeiterAndrew T. Tsubaki
- MN 36:3 (1981) 358–60Journey of the Three Jewels: Japanese Buddhist Paintings from Western Collections by John M. Rosenfield, Elizabeth ten GrotenhuisYasushi Egami
- MN 36:3 (1981) 360–61Mountain Storm, Pine Breeze: Folk Song in Japan by Patia R. IsakuFanny Hagin Mayer
- MN 36:3 (1981) 361–62Japanese Prints Today: Tradition with Innovation by Margaret K. Johnson, Dale K. HiltonRonald G. Robertson
- MN 36:3 (1981) 363–64Mélanges offerts à M. Charles Haguenauer en l’honneur de son quatre-vingtième anniversaire. Études japonaises by L’Institut des Hautes Études Japonaises du Collège de FranceMichael Cooper
- MN 36:3 (1981) 365–66CorrespondenceStanleigh H. Jones
- MN 36:3 (1981) 1981Monumenta Nipponica Volume 36, Number 3, 1981
MN 36:2 (1981) 113–31Experiment and Tradition: New Plays in the Bunraku TheatreStanleigh H. Jones- MN 36:2 (1981) 133–72The Lost Poetic Sequence of the Priest ManzeiRoy Andrew Miller
- MN 36:2 (1981) 173–86Apologia pro Vita Sua: Arai Hakuseki’s AutobiographyKate Wildman-Nakai
- MN 36:2 (1981) 187–93Public Official or Feudal Lord?Mary Elizabeth Berry
- MN 36:2 (1981) 195–200A Splendor of ScholarshipEdward D. Seidensticker
- MN 36:2 (1981) 201–202Collection de sable et de pierres: Shasekishū par Ichien Mujū by Hartmut O. RotermundRobert E. Morrell
- MN 36:2 (1981) 202–205Yokomitsu Riichi: Modernist by Dennis KeeneValdo H. Viglielmo
- MN 36:2 (1981) 206–208A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa by H. Paul VarleyJohn S. Brownlee
- MN 36:2 (1981) 208–10Tokutomi Sohō, 1863–1957: A Journalist for Modern Japan by John D. PiersonJames L. Huffman
- MN 36:2 (1981) 210–12Intellectual Change and Political Development in Early Modern Japan: Ono Azusa, A Case Study by Sandra T. W. DavisThomas R. H. Havens
- MN 36:2 (1981) 212–14The Fateful Choice: Japan’s Advance into Southeast Asia, 1938–1941. Selected translations from Taiheiyō sensō e no michi: kaisen gaikō shi by James William MorleyJoyce C. Lebra
- MN 36:2 (1981) 214–16The 1942 Japanese General Election: Political Mobilization in Wartime Japan by Edward J. DreaGordon Mark Berger
- MN 36:2 (1981) 216–19The Art of Hokusai in Book Illustration by Jack HillierKenneth Gardner
- MN 36:2 (1981) 219–21Japanese Lacquer, 1600–1900: Selections from the Charles A. Greenfield Collection by Andrew J. PekarikRaymond Bushell
- MN 36:2 (1981) 221–22Early Buddhist Architecture in Japan by Kakichi Suzuki, Mary Neighbour Parent, Nancy Shatzman SteinhardtJ. Edward Kidder, Jr.
- MN 36:2 (1981) 223–25Long Engagements: Maturity in Modern Japan by David W. PlathFelix Moos
- MN 36:2 (1981) 225–27Rural Society in Japan by Tadashi Fukutake, The Japan InterpreterEdward Norbeck
- MN 36:2 (1981) 227–28Noguchi and His Patrons by Isabel R. PlessetMargaret Lock