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Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University, Monumenta Nipponica is one of the oldest English-language academic journals in the field of Asian studies. As a peer-reviewed international forum for researchers across the globe, it carries original scholarly contributions on premodern and modern history, literature, art history, religion, and thought; translations of important Japanese literary and historical sources; and authoritative reviews of recent books on Japan.
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Volume 68, Number 1, 2013Editorial Board
Institute Director
Angela Yiu
Editors
Richard A. Gardner
Caroline Hirasawa
Book Review Editor
Shion Kōno
Managing Editor
Esther Sanders
Advisory Board
Mikael S. Adolphson, University of Alberta
Bruce Batten, J. F. Oberlin University
C. Andrew Gerstle, SOAS, University of London
Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Sophia University
Helen Hardacre, Harvard University
Hayashi Michio, Sophia University
James W. Heisig, Nanzan University
Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Freie Universität Berlin
R. Keller Kimbrough, University of Colorado, Boulder
Gregory P. Levine, University of California, Berkeley
Matsuda Kōichirō, Rikkyo University
Miyazaki Fumiko, Keisen University
Joshua S. Mostow, University of British Columbia
Mark R. Mullins, University of Auckland
Kate Wildman Nakai, Sophia University, Emerita
Nakano Kōichi, Sophia University
Peter Nosco, University of British Columbia
Fabio Rambelli, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sven Saaler, Sophia University
Shimazono Susumu, Sophia University
Haruo Shirane, Columbia University
M. Antoni J. Üçerler, S.J., University of Oxford
Charlotte von Verschuer, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
Dennis Washburn, Dartmouth College
