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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 71, Number 2, 2016Table of Contents

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View Mothers of the Buddhas: The Sutra on Transforming Women into Buddhas (Bussetsu Tennyo Jōbutsu Kyō)
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View Constructing the Dharma King: The Hōryūji Shaka Triad and the Birth of the Prince Shōtoku Cult by Akiko Walley (review)
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View Classical World Literatures: Sino-Japanese and Greco-Roman Comparisons by Wiebke Denecke (review)
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View The Halo of Golden Light: Imperial Authority and Buddhist Ritual in Heian Japan by Asuka Sango (review)
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View Mapping Courtship and Kinship in Classical Japan: The Tale of Genji and Its Predecessors by Doris G. Bargen (review)
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View From Outcasts to Emperors: Shingon Ritsu and the Mañjuśrī Cult in Medieval Japan by David Quinter (review)
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View Spain, China, and Japan in Manila, 1571–1644: Local Comparisons and Global Connections by Birgit Tremml-Werner (review)
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View Shimaji Mokurai and the Reconception of Religion and the Secular in Modern Japan by Hans Martin Krämer (review)
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View Empires on the Waterfront: Japan’s Ports and Power, 1858–1899 by Catherine L. Phipps (review)
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View Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture by Seth Jacobowitz (review)
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View Monster of the Twentieth Century: Kōtoku Shūsui and Japan’s First Anti-Imperialist Movement by Robert Thomas Tierney (review)
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View Painting Circles: Tsuchida Bakusen and Nihonga Collectives in Early 20th-Century Japan by John D. Szostak (review)
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View Photography for Everyone: The Cultural Lives of Camera and Consumers in Early Twentieth-Century Japan by Kerry Ross (review)
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View Sacred Space in the Modern City: The Fractured Pasts of Meiji Shrine, 1912–1958 by Yoshiko Imaizumi (review)
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View Treacherous Translation: Culture, Nationalism, and Colonialism in Korea and Japan from the 1910s to the 1960s by Serk-Bae Suh (review)
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View The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy, 1915–1952 by Reto Hofmann, and: Casualties of History: Wounded Japanese Servicemen and the Second World War by Lee K. Pennington, and: Grassroots Fascism: The War Experience of the Japanese People by Yoshimi Yoshiaki (review)
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View The International Minimum: Creativity and Contradiction in Japan’s Global Engagement, 1933–1964 by Jessamyn R. Abel (review)
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View The Long Defeat: Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Japan by Akiko Hashimoto, and: Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar by Akiko Takenaka (review)
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View From Dog Bridegroom to Wolf Girl: Contemporary Japanese Fairy-Tale Adaptations in Conversation with the West by Mayako Murai, and: Japanese Animal-Wife Tales: Narrating Gender Reality in Japanese Folktale Tradition by Fumihiko Kobayashi (review)
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View Allegories of Time and Space: Japanese Identity in Photography and Architecture by Jonathan M. Reynolds (review)
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View Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations on Screen: A History, 1989–2005 by Griseldis Kirsch (review)
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ISSN | 1880-1390 |
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Print ISSN | 0027-0741 |
Launched on MUSE | 2017-03-19 |
Open Access | No |