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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 72, Number 2, 2017Editorial Board
Chief Editor
Bettina Gramlich-Oka
Editor
Sven Saaler
Book Review Editor
Bruce Batten, J.F. Oberlin University
Managing Editor
Esther Sanders
Advisory Board
Mikael S. Adolphson, University of Cambridge
Roselee Bundy, Kalamazoo College
Lucia Dolce, SOAS University of London
Torquil Duthie, University of California, Los Angeles
Richard A. Gardner, Sophia University
C. Andrew Gerstle, SOAS University of London
Helen Hardacre, Harvard University
Hayashi Michio, Sophia University
Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Freie Universität Berlin
Caroline Hirasawa, Sophia University
Miyazaki Fumiko, Keisen University, Emerita
Joshua S. Mostow, University of British Columbia
Mark R. Mullins, University of Auckland
Kate Wildman Nakai, Sophia University, Emerita
Nakano Kōichi, Sophia University
Rajyashree Pandey, Goldsmiths, University of London
Fabio Rambelli, University of California, Santa Barbara
Franziska Seraphim, Boston College
Shimazono Susumu, Sophia University
Haruo Shirane, Columbia University
Mark Teeuwen, University of Oslo
Hitomi M. Tonomura, University of Michigan
M. Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J., University of San Francisco
Charlotte von Verschuer, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
Dennis Washburn, Dartmouth College