Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 34:2 (1979) 155–68The Tale of the Mouse: Nezumi no SōshiTranslated by D. E. Mills- MN 34:2 (1979) 177–208Anegakōji Imashinmei HyakuinTranslated by Thomas W. Hare
- MN 34:2 (1979) 169–208Linked Verse at Imashinmei Shrine: Anegakōji Imashinmei Hyakuin, 1447Thomas W. Hare
- MN 34:2 (1979) 221–30The Codes of Three Merchant HousesTranslated by J. Mark Ramseyer
- MN 34:2 (1979) 209–30Thrift and Diligence: House Codes of Tokugawa Merchant FamiliesJ. Mark Ramseyer
- MN 34:2 (1979) 231–38The Year of Zeami’s Birth: A New Interpretation of Museki IsshiZeami Kanze Motokiyo, Translated by P. G. O'Neill
- MN 34:2 (1979) 239–42And Then by Natsume Sōseki, Norma Moore FieldJay Rubin
- MN 34:2 (1979) 243–44Pacifism in Japan. The Christian and Socialist Tradition by Nobuya Bamba, John F. HowesH. J. Jones
- MN 34:2 (1979) 245Learning To Be Japanese. Selected Readings on Japanese Society and Education by Edward R. BeauchampHerbert Passin
- MN 34:2 (1979) 247–50Authority and the Individual in Japan. Citizen Protest in Historical Perspective by J. Victor KoschmannGeorge A. DeVos
- MN 34:2 (1979) 251–52Diego Collado’s Grammar of the Japanese Language by Richard L. SpearJoseph F. Moran
- MN 34:2 (1979) 253–54Kyoto Woodcuts by Naoko MatsubaraGaston Petit
- MN 34:2 (1979) 254–56The Waves at Genji’s Door: Japan Through Its Cinema by Joan Mellen; Japanese Film Directors by Audie BockDavid J. Brudnoy
- MN 34:2 (1979) 257Ō no Yasumaro
- MN 34:2 (1979) 245–47Shinohata, a Portrait of a Japanese Village by Ronald P. DoreEdward Norbeck
- MN 34:2 (1979) 1979Monumenta Nipponica Volume 34, Number 2, 1979
MN 34:1 (1979) 7–20Buke Giri MonogatariIhara Saikaku, Translated by Caryl Callahan- MN 34:1 (1979) 1–20Tales of Samurai Honor: Saikaku’s Buke Giri MonogatariCaryl Callahan
- MN 34:1 (1979) 26–48Watakushi no Kojinshugi (My Individualism)Natsume Sōseki, Translated by Jay Rubin
- MN 34:1 (1979) 21–48Sōseki on Individualism: ‘Watakushi no Kojinshugi’Jay Rubin
- MN 34:1 (1979) 63–72Ōdōron (The Way of the King)Chiba Takusaburō , Translated by Richard Devine
- MN 34:1 (1979) 49–72The Way of the King: An Early Meiji Essay on GovernmentRichard Devine
- MN 34:1 (1979) 73–99Ōyama Estate and Insei Land PoliciesElizabeth Sato
- MN 34:1 (1979) 101–12Michinaga’s Maladies: A Medical Report on Fujiwara no MichinagaG. Cameron Hurst
- MN 34:1 (1979) 113–15Ryōkan: Zen Monk-Poet of Japan by Burton WatsonMarian Ury
- MN 34:1 (1979) 115–17Economic and Demographic Change in Preindustrial Japan, 1600–1868 by Susan B. Hanley, Kozo YamamuraWilliam B. Hauser
- MN 34:1 (1979) 118–19The Diplomacy of Japan, 1894–1922. Volume II: Anglo-Japanese Alliance and Russo-Japanese War by Morinosuke KajimaPeter Lowe
- MN 34:1 (1979) 119–21Historia de Japam by Luis Fróis, Josef WickiMichael Cooper
- MN 34:1 (1979) 121–22Kurusu. The Price of Progress in a Japanese Village, 1951–1975 by Robert J. SmithMitsuru Shimpo
- MN 34:1 (1979) 123–24Bugaku Masks by Kyōtarō Nishikawa, Monica BetheGunhild Gabbert
- MN 34:1 (1979) 1979Monumenta Nipponica Volume 34, Number 1, 1979
MN 33:4 (1978) 379–405Methods of Land Transfer in Medieval JapanJames Kanda- MN 33:4 (1978) 413–39Shinitamau Haha’ (My Mother is Dying)Mokichi Saitō, Translated by Amy Vladeck Heinrich
- MN 33:4 (1978) 407–39My Mother is Dying’: Saitō Mokichi’s ‘Shinitamau Haha’Amy Vladeck Heinrich
- MN 33:4 (1978) 447–59Youchi SogaMiyamasu, Translated by Laurence R. Kominz
- MN 33:4 (1978) 441–59The Noh as Popular Theater: Miyamasu’s Youchi SogaLaurence R. Kominz
- MN 33:4 (1978) 461–69Sōseki: A Tragic FatherYoko McClain
- MN 33:4 (1978) 471–73From Court to Capital: A Tentative Interpretation of the Origins of the Japanese Urban Tradition by Paul Wheatley, Thomas SeeJ. Edward Kidder, Jr.
- MN 33:4 (1978) 473–76Biographical Dictionary of Japanese History by Seiichi Iwao, Burton WatsonJohn Whitney Hall
- MN 33:4 (1978) 476–79Ox Against the Storm. A Biography of Tanaka Shozo: Japan’s Conservationist Pioneer by Kenneth StrongF. G. Notehelfer
- MN 33:4 (1978) 479–81Sanuki no Suke Nikki. A Translation of the Emperor Horikawa Diary by Jennifer BrewsterKaren Brazell
- MN 33:4 (1978) 482–88The Legend of Semimaru, Blind Musician of Japan by Susan MatisoffD. E. Mills
- MN 33:4 (1978) 489–91In Praise of Shadows by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, Thomas J. Harper, Edward G. Seidensticker, Charles MoorePaul McCarthy
- MN 33:4 (1978) 492–93Howling at the Moon, Poems of Hagiwara Sakutarō by Hiroaki SatoJ. Thomas Rimer
- MN 33:4 (1978) 493–94The Voices and Hands of Bunraku by Barbara AdachiThomas Immoos
- MN 33:4 (1978) 495Japanese Design Through Textile Patterns by Frances BlakemoreMary Helen Mine
- MN 33:4 (1978) 497–500Nagasaki Prints and Early Copperplates by Masanobu Hosono, Lloyd R. CraighillCal French
- MN 33:4 (1978) 500–502The History of Japanese Printing and Book Illustration by David ChibbettDavid Waterhouse