Nichibunken Monograph Series
The Nichibunken Monograph Series, authored primarily by faculty members of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, presents some of the Center's leading research in English. Several volumes have been co-published with publishing houses in the U.S. and Europe.
Latest issue
No. 22 Japanese ceremonial for Western diplomats attending Shogunal castle audiences, 1857-1867
| Editor/Author |
SANO Mayuko |
| Publisher |
Amsterdam University Press, International Research Center for Japanese Studies |
| Publication Date |
2024.09.01 |
| ISBN |
9789463725194 |
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No. 21 Sentiment, Language, and the Arts : The Japanese-Brazilian Heritage
| Editor/Author |
HOSOKAWA Shūhei |
| Publisher |
BRILL, International Research Center for Japanese Studies |
| 掲載日 |
2019.01.01 |
| ISBN |
978-90-04-39371-4 |
No. 20 Philosophy Live : A Perspective from Japan
| Editor/Author |
SUEKI Fumihiko / Translated by Lynne E. Riggs, Takechi Manabu (with collaboration by Anton Luis Sevilla) |
| Publisher |
International Research Center for Japanese Studies |
| 掲載日 |
2018.01.01 |
| ISBN |
978-4-901558-89-1 |
No. 19 Daimyō Gardens
| Editor/Author |
SHIRAHATA Yōzaburō / Translated by IMOTO Chikako and Lynne E. RIGGS |
| Publisher |
International Research Center for Japanese Studies |
| 掲載日 |
2016.01.01 |
| ISBN |
978-4-901558-81-5 |
No. 18 The Influenza Pandemic in Japan, 1918-1920: The First World War between Humankind and a Virus
| Editor/Author |
HAYAMI Akira / Translated by Lynne E. Riggs and TAKECHI Manabu |
| Publisher |
International Research Center for Japanese Studies |
| 掲載日 |
2015.03.01 |
| ISBN |
978-4-901558-75-4 |
No. 17 Religious Discourse in Modern Japan: Religion, State, and Shintō
| Editor/Author |
ISOMAE Jun'ichi / Translated by Galen Amstutz, Lynne E. Riggs |
| Publisher |
BRILL, International Research Center for Japanese Studies |
| 掲載日 |
2014.06.01 |
| ISBN |
978-90-04-27267-5 |
No. 16 Itō Hirobumi ― Japan's First Prime Minister and Father of the Meiji Constitution
| Editor/Author |
TAKII Kazuhiro / Translated by Takechi Manabu |
| Publisher |
Routledge, International Research Center for Japanese Studies |
| 掲載日 |
2014.02.11 |
| ISBN |
978-0-415-83886-3 |
No. 15 Refining Nature in Modern Japanese Literature: The Life and Art of Shiga Naoya
| Editor/Author |
GUO Nanyan |
| Publisher |
Lexington Books, International Research Center for Japanese Studies |
| 掲載日 |
2014.01.23 |
| ISBN |
978-0-7391-8102-7 |
No. 14 SHUNGA: Ten Questions and Answers
| Editor/Author |
HAYAKAWA Monta / Translated by C. Andrew Gerstle |
| Publisher |
International Research Center for Japanese Studies |
| 掲載日 |
2013.01.01 |
| ISBN |
978-4-901558-63-1 |
No. 13 "PIRATE” PUBLISHING: The Battle over Perpetual Copyright in Eighteenth-Century Britain
| Editor/Author |
YAMADA Shōji / Translated by Lynne E. Riggs |
| Publisher |
International Research Center for Japanese Studies |
| 掲載日 |
2012.01.01 |
| ISBN |
978-4-901558-57-0 |
No. 12 Governance and Policing of Colonial Korea: 1904-1919
| Editor/Author |
MATSUDA Toshihiko |
| Publisher |
International Research Center for Japanese Studies |
| 掲載日 |
2011.01.31 |
| ISBN |
9784901558518 |
No. 11 Population and Family in Early-Modern Central Japan
| Editor/Author |
HAYAMI Akira |
| Publisher |
International Research Center for Japanese Studies |
| 掲載日 |
2010.03.05 |
| ISBN |
9784901558488 |
No. 10 Japanese Mythology: Hermeneutics on Scripture
| Editor/Author |
ISOMAE Jun'ichi / Translated by Mukund Subramanian |
| Publisher |
Equinox Publishing Ltd., International Research Center for Japanese Studies |
| 掲載日 |
2010.01.01 |
| ISBN |
9781845531829 |
No. 9 Shots in the Dark: Japan, Zen, and the West
| Editor/Author |
YAMADA Shoji / Translated by Earl Hartman |
| Publisher |
The University of Chicago Press, International Research Center for Japanese Studies |
| 掲載日 |
2009.03.01 |
| ISBN |
9780226947648 |
No. 8 The Concept of “Literature” in Japan
| Editor/Author |
SUZUKI Sadami / Translated by Royall Tyler |
| Publisher |
International Research Center for Japanese Studies |
| 掲載日 |
2006.03.01 |
| ISBN |
4901558315 |
No. 7 Wandering Spirits and Temporary Corpses: Studies in the History of Japanese Religious Tradition
| Editor/Author |
YAMAORI Tetsuo / Edited and Translated by Dennis Hirota |
| Publisher |
International Research Center for Japanese Studies |
| 掲載日 |
2004.01.01 |
| ISBN |
490155820X |
No. 6 The Transfiguration of Miyako and the Emergence of Urbanity in Japan
| Editor/Author |
SONODA Hidehiro |
| Publisher |
International Research Center for Japanese Studies |
| 掲載日 |
2003.12.01 |
| ISBN |
4901558196 |
No. 5 The Kanshi Poems of the Ozawa Tanzaku Collection: Late Edo Life through the Eyes of Kyoto Townsen
| Editor/Author |
Judith N. RABINOVITCH / Timothy R. BRADSTOCK |
| Publisher |
International Research Center for Japanese Studies |
| 掲載日 |
2002.11.01 |
| ISBN |
4901558099 |
No. 4 The Shunga of Suzuki Harunobu Mitate-e and Sexuality in Edo
| Editor/Author |
HAYAKAWA Monta / Translated by Patricia J. Fister |
| Publisher |
International Research Center for Japanese Studies |
| 掲載日 |
2001.10.01 |
| ISBN |
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No. 3 The Origin and Development of Japanese-style Organization
| Editor/Author |
KASAYA Kazuhiko / Translated by Eric C. Rath |
| Publisher |
International Research Center for Japanese Studies |
| 掲載日 |
2000.03.01 |
| ISBN |
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No. 2 Islands or Security? Japanese-Soviet Relations under Brezhnev and Andropov
| Editor/Author |
KIMURA Hiroshi |
| Publisher |
International Research Center for Japanese Studies |
| 掲載日 |
1998.12.02 |
| ISBN |
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No. 1 The Origins of Acupuncture, Moxibustion, and Decoction
| Editor/Author |
YAMADA Keiji |
| Publisher |
International Research Center for Japanese Studies |
| 掲載日 |
1998.12.01 |
| ISBN |
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