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MN 74:2 (2019) 272–73Engaging the Other: ‘Japan’ and Its Alter Egos, 1550–1850 by Ronald P. TobyKären Wigen- MN 74:2 (2019) 273–78Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan by Maren A. EhlersJames L. Huffman
- MN 74:2 (2019) 278–81Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan by James L. HuffmanTimothy D. Amos
- MN 74:2 (2019) 281–87Sōseki: Modern Japan’s Greatest Novelist by John NathanJ. Keith Vincent
- MN 74:2 (2019) 288–93Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945 by Kerim YasarScott W. Aalgaard
- MN 74:2 (2019) 293–97A Sense of the City: Modes of Urban Representation in the Works of Nagai Kafū (1879–1959) by Gala Maria FollacoRachael Hutchinson
- MN 74:2 (2019) 297–305Osaka Modern: The City in the Japanese Imaginary by Michael P. CroninAndrew Murakami-Smith
- MN 74:2 (2019) 305–307The History of US-Japan Relations: From Perry to the Present ed. Tosh MinoharaPeter Mauch
- MN 74:2 (2019) 307–12The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan: Histories and Cultures of the Book by Sari KawanaJonathan E. Abel
- MN 74:2 (2019) 312–15The Politics of Painting: Fascism and Japanese Art during the Second World War by Asato IkedaMaki Kaneko
- MN 74:2 (2019) 316–19The Japanese and the War: From Expectation to Memory by Michael LuckenAaron William Moore
- MN 74:2 (2019) 319–22The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan by William W. KellyMichael Laver
- MN 74:2 (2019) 322–25Reorienting Ozu: A Master and His Influence ed. by Jinhee ChoiDavid Desser
- MN 74:2 (2019) 325–29Religion in Japanese Daily Life by David C. LewisJohn W. Traphagan
- MN 74:2 (2019) 329–32Diaspora and Identity: Japanese Brazilians in Brazil and Japan by Mieko NishidaSarah LeBaron von Baeyer
- MN 74:2 (2019) 2019Monumenta Nipponica Volume 74, Number 2, 2019
MN 74:1 (2019) 1–32Unearthing Lost Memories: A Reexamination of the Role of Naniwa in Early JapanJoshua Frydman- MN 74:1 (2019) 33–57War without Blood? The Literary Uses of a Taboo Fluid in Heike MonogatariVyjayanthi R. Selinger
- MN 74:1 (2019) 59–84The Poetics of Nativism: Motoori Norinaga and the Sacralization of Japanese LiteratureEmi Foulk Bushelle
- MN 74:1 (2019) 85–90Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan ed. Karen M. GerhartYui Suzuki
- MN 74:1 (2019) 90–93Parody, Irony and Ideology in the Fiction of Ihara Saikaku by David J. GundryJ. Scott Miller
- MN 74:1 (2019) 93–97Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan by Yulia FrumerStefan Tanaka
- MN 74:1 (2019) 97–101Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan by Jakobina K. ArchWilliam M. Tsutsui
- MN 74:1 (2019) 101–106Good Dogs: Edification, Entertainment, and Kyokutei Bakin’s “Nansō Satomi hakkenden” by Glynne WalleyYoshitaka Yamamoto
- MN 74:1 (2019) 106–109Yokohama and the Silk Trade: How Eastern Japan Became the Primary Economic Region of Japan, 1843–1893 by Yasuhiro MakimuraHarald Fuess
- MN 74:1 (2019) 109–15The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan: The Vanquished Gods of Izumo by Yijiang ZhongBernhard Scheid
- MN 74:1 (2019) 115–19To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan’s Meiji Restoration in World History by Mark RavinaAlistair Swale
- MN 74:1 (2019) 119–22The Merchant’s Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan by Simon PartnerM. William Steele
- MN 74:1 (2019) 122–27Embracing “Asia” in China and Japan: Asianism Discourse and the Contest for Hegemony, 1912–1933 by Torsten WeberChristopher W. A. Szpilman
- MN 74:1 (2019) 127–30Others in Japanese Agriculture: Koreans, Evacuees and Migrants 1920–1950 by Yasuoka Ken’ichi, trans. Teresa CastelvetereTessa Morris-Suzuki
- MN 74:1 (2019) 131–35Making Icons: Repetition and the Female Image in Japanese Cinema, 1945–1964 by Jennifer CoatesDiane Wei Lewis
- MN 74:1 (2019) 136–40Japan’s Quest for Stability in Southeast Asia: Navigating the Turning Points in Postwar Asia by Miyagi Taizō, trans. Hanabusa MidoriTadashi Anno
- MN 74:1 (2019) 140–45Japan in Asia: Post-Cold-War Diplomacy by Tanaka Akihiko, trans. Jean Connell HoffJames D. J. Brown
- MN 74:1 (2019) 146–50Circles of Compensation: Economic Growth and the Globalization of Japan by Kent E. CalderFrances McCall Rosenbluth
- MN 74:1 (2019) 150–57Denying the Comfort Women: The Japanese State’s Assault on Historical Truth ed. Nishino Rumiko, Kim Puja, and Onozawa AkaneJeff Kingston
- MN 74:1 (2019) 157–60The Abe Administration and the Rise of the Prime Ministerial Executive by Aurelia George MulganAlisa Gaunder
- MN 74:1 (2019) 161–64Intimacy and Reproduction in Contemporary Japan by Genaro Castro-VázquezAya Homei
- MN 74:1 (2019) 165–70Interpreting Anime by Christopher Bolton; The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media by Thomas LamarreDeborah Shamoon
- MN 74:1 (2019) 170–72Contents Tourism in Japan: Pilgrimages to “Sacred Sites” of Popular Culture by Philip Seaton, Takayoshi Yamamura, Akiko Sugawa-Shimada, and Kyungjae JangTom Havens
- MN 74:1 (2019) 2019Monumenta Nipponica Volume 74, Number 1, 2019
MN 73:2 (2018) 185–86Eightieth Anniversary MessageAs we publish this issue, 73:2, Monumenta Nipponica has entered its ninth decade as a forum for the exchange of ideas and presentation of research on Japan. Two very special events, a symposium and an exhibit, were held in celebration of the journal’s eightieth anniversary. It is our great pleasure to bring you news of these events as well as a brief introduction to the content you will find in the pages of this issue. The MN 80th Anniversary Symposium, …- 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 73:2 (2018) 213–44Female Shrine Priests and Doctrinal Instructors in the Early Meiji Moral Edification CampaignMichael Burtscher and Mika Odaira
- MN 73:2 (2018) 245–50Shinto: A History by Helen Hardacre; A Social History of the Ise Shrines: Divine Capital by Mark Teeuwen and John BreenYijiang Zhong
- MN 73:2 (2018) 250–55Fabricating the “Tenjukoku Shūchō Mandara” and Prince Shōtoku’sAfterlives by Chari PradelHillary Pedersen
- MN 73:2 (2018) 255–58Accounts and Images of Six Kannon in Japan by Sherry D. FowlerKaren M. Gerhart
- MN 73:2 (2018) 258–60Recasting the Past: An Early Modern “Tales of Ise” for Children by Laura MorettiPeter MacMillan
- MN 73:2 (2018) 260–64Daimyo Gardens by Shirahata Yōzaburō, trans. Imoto Chikako, Lynne E. RiggsChristian Tagsold