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In addition to the journal, between 1940 and the 1980s Monumenta Nipponica published close to sixty monographs. The demands of bringing out the journal led in 1986 to the reluctant termination of this program. Many of the monographs are out of print, but, as indicated on the list below, a number are still in stock and available for purchase. Prices, listed in yen, dollars, and euros, do not include postage or tax, where applicable. Please address inquiries and orders to:

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Monumenta Nipponica Monographs

1. Kirishito-ki und Sayo-yoroku: Japanische Dokumente zur Missionsgeschichte des 17. Jahrhunderts. Translated, with an introduction, by Gustav Voss and Hubert Cieslik.
   1940. 229 pages. Hardback (in German). [Out of print]

2. A Private Journal of John Glendy Sproston, U. S. N. Edited by Shio Sakanishi.
   1940; revised 1968. xvii + 128 pages. Hardback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00.

3. The Lore of the Chinese Lute. By R. H. van Gulik.
   1940; revised 1968. xix + 271 pages. Hardback. [Out of print]

4. Hsi K'ang and His Poetical Essay on the Lute. By R. H. Van Gulik.
   1941; revised 1969. 90 pages; 133 pages. Hardback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00.

5. Kirishitan Bunko: A Manual of Books and Documents on the Early Christian Mission in Japan. By Johannes Laures.
   1957. 536 pages. Paperback. [Out of print]

6. La premiere ambassade du Japon en Europe 1582-1592. Premiere partie: Le traite du pere Frois. Edited by J. A. Abranches Pinto, Yoshitomo Okamoto, and Henri Bernard.
   1942. lvi + 268 + 13 pages. Paperback (in French). [Out of print]

7. Japanische Ansprachen und Gebete aus einem alten Rituale, gedruckt zu Nagasaki 1605. Translated and edited by Johannes Laures.
   1941. xxxviii + 107 pages. Paperback (in German). [Out of print]

8. Kamo Mabuchi: Ein Beitrag zur japanischen Religions-und Geistesgeschichte. By Heinrich Dumoulin.
   1943. vii + 317 pages. Paperback (in German). [Out of print]

9. Sumario de las cosas de Japon (1583). By Alejandro Valignano, S. J. Edited, with an introduction, by Jose Luis Alvares-Taladriz.
   1954. xix + 346 pages. Paperback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00 (in Spanish).

10. Nobunaga und das Christentum. By Johannes Laures.
    1950. 54 pages. Paperback (in German). [Out of print]

11. Japanese Chronological Tables from 601 to 1872 A.D. Edited by Paul Yachita Tsuchihashi. 1952;
    1988. 128 pages; 110 pages. Paperback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00.

12. Djin-si Lu: Die sungkonfuzianische Summa mit dem Kommentar des Yä Tsai. By Dschu Hsi. Translated and edited by Olaf Graf.
    1953. 3 vols. 297 + 27 pages; 388 pages; 545 pages. Paperback (in German). [Out of print]

13. Wu-men-kuan: Der Pass ohne Tor. By Heinrich Dumoulin.
    1953. 64 pages. Paperback (in German). [Out of print]

14. Arte del Cha. By Juan Rodriguez Tsuzu, S. J. Edited by Jose Luis Alvarez-Taladriz.
    1954. 107 pages. Hardback ¥1,500/$15.00/€15.00 (in Spanish).

15. Kulturgegensätze Europa-Japan (1585). By Luis Frois, S. J. Edited by Josef Franz Schütte.
    1955. 280 pages. Paperback (in German). [Out of print]

16. Etymological Vocabulary of Japanese, Korean, and Ainu. By Johannes Rahder.
    1956. 73 pages. Paperback. [Out of print]

17. The Validity of Naien. By Luigi M. Civisca.
    1957. 32 pages. Paperback. [Out of print]

18. Japanese Art Lacquers. By U. A. Casal.
    1961. 119 pages. Hardback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00.

19. Das Kabukitheater: Kulturgeschichte der Anfänge. By Benito Ortolani.
    1964. 169 pages. Hardback (in German). [Out of print]

20. A Dialect Grammar of Japanese. By Yôichi Fujiwara.
    1965. 169 pages. Paperback [Out of print]

21. Rôei: The Medieval Court Songs of Japan. By Eta Harich-Schneider.
    1965. 132 pages. Paperback. [Out of print]

22. Higher Education in Postwar Japan: The Ministry of Education's 1964 White Paper. Edited and translated by John E. Blewett.
    1965. 191 pages. Paperback. [Out of print]

23. Studies in Japanese Culture: Tradition and Experiment. Edited by Joseph Roggendorf.
    1963. 276 pages. Hardback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00.

24. Hermann Roesler and the Making of the Meiji State. By Johannes Siemes.
    1968. 252 pages. Hardback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00.

25. Folk Cultures of Japan and East Asia. Compiled by Joseph Pittau.
    1966. 163 pages. Paperback. [Out of print]

26. The Five Sacred Festivals of Ancient Japan: Their Symbolism and Historical Development. By U. A. Casal.
    1967. 114 pages. Hardback. [Out of print]

27. Japanese Youth Confronts Religion: A Sociological Survey Conducted among Japanese University Students. By Fernando M. Basabe.
    1967. 183 pages. Hardback. [Out of print]

28. Educational Television in Japan. By Jose Maria de Vera.
    1967. 140 pages. Hardback. [Out of print]

29. Recent Japanese Philosophical Thought: 1862-1962, A Survey. By Gino K. Piovesana.
    Revised edition, 1968. 296 pages. Hardback. [Out of print]

30. Religious Attitude of Japanese Men: A Sociological Survey. By Fernando M. Basabe et al.
    1968. 135 pages. Hardback ¥1,500/$15.00/€15.00.

31. The Buddhist Philosophy of Assimilation: The Historical Development of the Honji-suijaku Theory. By Alicia Matsunaga.
    1969. 310 pages. Hardback. [Out of print]

32. The Development of Educational Broadcasting in Japan. By Motoji Nishimoto.
    1969. 287 pages. Hardback. [Out of print]

33. An Encouragement of Learning. By Fukuzawa Yukichi. Translated, with an introduction, by David A. Dilworth and Umeyo Hirano.
    1969. 123 pages. Hardback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00; paperback ¥1,500/$15.00/€15.00.

34. Distinguishing the Way: Bendô. By Ogyû Sorai. Translated, with an introduction, by Olof G. Lidin.
    1970. 146 pages. Hardback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00.

35. Fundamental Problems of Philosophy: The World of Action and the Dialectical World. By Nishida Kitarô. Translated, with an introduction, by David A. Dilworth.
    1970. 258 pages. Hardback. [Out of print]

36. Engi-shiki: Procedures of the Engi Era, Books I-V. Translated, with an introduction, by Felicia Gressitt Bock.
    1970. 216 pages. Hardback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00.

37. The New Religions of Japan: A Bibliography of Western-language Materials. By H. Byron Earhart.
    1970. xi + 96 pages. Hardback ¥1,500/$15.00/€15.00; paperback ¥1,000/$10.00/€10.00.

38. From Prejudice to Tolerance: A Study of the Japanese Image of the West 1826-1864. By Richard T. Chang.
    1970. xiv + 237 pages. Hardback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00.

39. A Religious Study of the Mt. Haguro Sect of Shugendô: An Example of Japanese Mountain Religion. By H. Byron Earhart.
    1970. xvi + 214 pages. Hardback. [Out of print]

40. Crisis Politics in Prewar Japan: Institutional and Ideological Problems of the 1930s. Edited by George M. Wilson.
    1970. xiii + 87 pages. Hardback ¥1,000/$10.00/€10.00.

41. Doctor on Desima: Selected Chapters from Jhr. J. L. C. Pompe van Meerdervoort's Vijf Jaren in Japan (Five Years in Japan, 1857-1863). Translated by Elizabeth P. Wittermans and John Z. Bowers.
    1970. vii + 144 pages. Hardback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00.

42. Hôgen monogatari: Tale of the Disorder in Hôgen. Translated by William R. Wilson.
    1971. ix + 176 pages. Hardback. [Out of print]

43. The Function of TV for Children and Adolescents. By Takeo Furu.
    1971. v + 323 pages. Hardback. [Out of print]

44. Izumo Fudoki. Translated, with an introduction, by Michiko Yamaguchi Aoki.
    1971. vi + 173 pages. Hardback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00.

45. Bibliography of Translations from the Japanese into Western Languages: From the 16th Century to 1912. By Hide Ikehara Inada.
    1971. vi + 112 pages. Hardback. [Out of print]

46. Engi-shiki: Procedures of the Engi Era, Books VI-X. Translated, with an introduction, by Felicia Gressitt Bock.
    1972. ix + 190 pages. Hardback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00.

47. The Japanese Enthronement Ceremonies: With an Account of the Imperial Regalia. By D. C. Holtom.
    1972. xii + 130 pages. Hardback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00.

48. The Yûaikai, 1912-19: The Rise of Labor in Japan. By Stephen S. Large.
    1972. xi + 218 pages. Hardback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00.

49. Japanese Shrine Mergers 1906-12: State Shinto Moves to the Grassroots. By Wilbur M. Fridell.
    1973. xiii + 142 pages. Hardback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00.

50. The Feast of Kingship: Accession Ceremonies in Ancient Japan. By Robert S. Ellwood.
    1973. viii + 175 pages. Hardback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00.

51. An Outline of a Theory of Civilization: Bunmeiron no Gairyaku. By Fukuzawa Yukichi. Translated by David A. Dilworth and G. Cameron Hurst.
    1973. xxiii + 205 pages. Hardback. [Out of print]

52. The Teachings Essential for Rebirth: A Study of Genshin's Ôjôyôshû. By Allan A. Andrews.
    1973. viii + 133 pages. Hardback. [Out of print]

53. The Phonology of Eighth-century Japanese: A Reconstruction Based upon Written Records. By Roland A. Lange.
    1973. vi + 178 pages. Hardback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00.

54. 101 Letters of Hideyoshi: The Private Correspondence of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Translated and edited by Adriana Boscaro.
    1975. xviii + 114 pages. Paperback. [Out of print]

55. Fujiwara Teika's Hundred-poem Sequence of the Shôji Era, 1200. Translated, with an introduction, by Robert H. Brower.
    1978. 120 pages. Hardback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00; paperback ¥1,500/$15.00/€15.00.

56. The Laws of the Muromachi Bakufu: Kemmu Shikimoku (1336) and Muromachi Bakufu Tsuikahô. Edited, with an introduction, by Kenneth A. Grossberg. Translated by Kenneth A. Grossberg and Kanamoto Nobuhisa.
    1981. 171 pages. Hardback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00.

57. Tales of Samurai Honor: Buke Giri Monogatari. By Ihara Saikaku. Translated by Caryl Ann Callahan.
    1981. 156 pages. Paperback ¥1,500/$15.00/€15.00.

58. Shômonki: The Story of Masakado's Rebellion. Translated and edited by Judith N. Rabinovitch.
    1986. 168 pages. Hardback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00; paperback ¥1,500/$15.00/€15.00.

Other Sophia University Publications Distributed by Monumenta Nipponica

Das moderne Japan: Einführende Aufsätze. Edited by Joseph Roggendorf.
1963. 206 pages. Hardback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00 (in German).

The d'Anethan Dispatches from Japan, 1894-1910: The Observations of Baron Albert d'Anethan, Belgian Minister Plenipotentiary and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps. Translated and edited by George A. Lensen.
1967. 272 pages. Hardback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00.

The Russo-Chinese War. By George A. Lensen.
1967. 320 pages. Hardback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00.

Sophia-I: An Economic Quarterly Model of the Japanese Economy: 1955-1965. By Antonio Sagrista.
1967. 231 pages. Paperback. [Out of print]

Faces of Japan: A Photographic Study. By George A. Lensen.
1968. 312 pages. Hardback. [Out of print]

Japanese Diplomatic and Consular Officials in Russia: A Handbook of Japanese Representatives in Russia from 1874 to 1968. Compiled by George A. Lensen.
1968. 230 pages. Hardback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00.

Japan's Modern Century: A Special Issue of Monumenta Nipponica Prepared in Celebration of the Centennial of the Meiji Restoration. Edited by Edmund Skrzypczak.
1968. 207 pages. Hardback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00.

Korea and Manchuria between Russia and Japan, 1895-1904: The Observations of Sir Ernest Satow, British Minister Plenipotentiary to Japan (1895-1900) and China (1900-1906). Edited by George A. Lensen.
1968. 296 pages. Hardback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00.

Russian Diplomatic and Consular Officials in East Asia: A Handbook of the Representatives of Tsarist Russia and the Provisional Government in China, Japan, and Korea from 1858 to 1924 and of Soviet Representatives in Japan from 1925 to 1968. Compiled by George A. Lensen.
1968. 294 pages. Hardback. [Out of print]

Toward an Orderly Market: An Intensive Study of Japan's Voluntary Quota in Cotton Textile Exports. By John Lynch.
1968. 215 pages. Hardback. [Out of print]

Trading under Sail off Japan, 1860 to 1899: The Recollections of Captain John Baxter Will, Sailing-master and Pilot. Edited by George A. Lensen.
1968. xvi + 190 pages. Hardback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00.

Silence. By Shusaku Endô. Translated by William Johnston.
1969. 306 pages. Hardback; paperback. [Out of print]

The Evolution of the Concept of Matrimonial Consent in Japanese Law. By Augustinus Kôno Yoshisuke.
1970. 103 pages. Paperback. ¥1,000/$10.00/€10.00.

Japanese Recognition of the U.S.S.R. By George A. Lensen. 419 pages.
1970. Hardback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00.

Witnesses of Tsushima. By J. N. Westwood.
1970. xiii + 321 pages. Hardback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00.

Erinnerungen aus der Christenheit von Ômura. By P. Afonso de Lucena, S. J. Translated and edited by Josef Franz Schütte.
1972. xxii + 311 pages. Paperback ¥2,000/$20.00/€20.00 (in German).

Approaches to the Modern Japanese Novel. Edited by Kinya Tsuruta and Thomas E. Swann.
1976. 244 pages. Paperback ¥1,500/$15.00/€15.00.

(Current as of 20 January 2006)