Monumenta Nipponica

Monumenta Nipponica is a japanologische scientific journal that publishes checked by peer review articles and book reviews on topics related to Japanese society, culture, history, religion, literature, art, anthropology and other subjects relating to Japanese and other Asian studies. Your contributions are written predominantly designed in English.

It is connected to the Sophia University in Tokyo. By 2007, she appeared quarterly since 2008 twice a year in May and November. Each issue includes three to four major articles on the research article writers as well as about ten to 15 reviews of current Japan-related books.

History

Monumenta Nipponica was one of the earliest magazines in a Western language, exclusively devoted to Japanology topics. It was founded in 1938 by a group of mainly European scholars at Sophia University. The first volumes show a clear association of the authors with the Jesuits as to deal a large number of the early articles with the relationships between the Japan of the "Christian " Century (1550-1650) and the Catholic Church. However, this apparent bias limited the topics not only to these questions, so that articles on literature, art, history, philosophy, science, ethnology, linguistics, music and politics published.

While the external appearance of the magazine remained until today, more or less, the contents changed. From the 1950s to replace English other languages ​​(mainly German ), a shift of the issues away from the previous focus on Japan's relations with the Catholic Church took place, the ratio has also changed articles to more reviews.

Role

Since its inception Monumenta Nipponica remained one of the major journals in Japanese studies. Its strength lies particularly in the areas of literature, history and religion. The book reviews - often by leading scholars in the respective fields - are for Japanese studies of importance as they allow one to follow the latest developments in the field.

The editors give in addition to the English text in the footnotes Kanji for Japanese and Chinese words and names in the text as well as extensive quotations from the original texts to.

Additionally, the magazine contains a short section regularly for correspondence that provides an open forum for scientific debate. An occasional section "Brief Notes" provides information of current interest, such as statistics. Comments to the author are usually available at the beginning of each article. Apart from the recognized experts, it offers space for work New Scientist.

Older issues of Monumenta Nipponica are available from JSTOR, the more recent editions of the online database Project Muse.

Publisher

  • Volume 1-6 (1938-1943) - JB Kraus (founder )
  • Volume 7-17 (1951-1962) - Wilhelm Schiffer
  • Volume 18 (1963 ) - Wilhelm Schiffer, Francis Mathy
  • Volume 19-23 (1964-1968) - Joseph Pittau
  • Volume 24-25 (1969-1970) - Edmund R. Skrzypczak
  • Volume 26-51 (1971-1996) - Michael Cooper
  • Volume 52 (1997) - Michael Cooper, Kate Wildman Nakai
  • Volume 53 ( 1998 ) - Kate Wildman Nakai
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