Articles include:
No.1;History of the foundation of Japan; IA study of the varied names for Japan; . . . Notes on dyeing and weaving in ancient Japan; Kansui-ike or water-viewing flower arrangement.
No. 2 ; Chonin's Life under Feudalism (32 pp.), Characteristics of Japanese Painting (16 pp.), Hitachi-Fudoki, Part I (36 pp.) and others

CULTURAL NIPPON
Spring Number
CONTENTS
Frontispiece: "The Descent of Amida with Bodhisattvas to Welcome the Departing Soul."

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Empire. The Twenty-Sixth Centenary of the Founding of The Japanese By Prince Tadashige Shimadzu i

I. History of The Foundation of Japan By Nakamura-Köya I

II. A Study of The Varied Names for Japan (I). ....By Iwai-Hirosato

21

III. Prince Shōtoku and His Seventeen-Article Constitution. By Kuroita-Katsumi

49

IV. Ninomiya-Sontoku, An Agrarian Economist of Feudal Japan By Onishi-Goichi

75

V. Notes on Dyeing and Weaving in Ancient Japan By Sanjōnishi-Kinwosa

101

VI. Kansui-ike or Water-Viewing Flower Arrangements ...By Hazel H. Gorham & Oshikawa-Josui 127

CULTURAL NIPPON
Summer Number
1940
CONTENTS
Frontispiece: "Scrolls depicting bird and animal caricatures."

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I

I. His Majesty The Present Emperor in His Early Age By Taguchi-Shōta

II. Japanese and Romanic Cultures By Arundell del Re

41

III. Culture and Life of the Japanese Nation By Hasegawa-Nyozekan

53

IV. Chōnin's Life under Feudalism By Mitsui-Takaharu

65

V. Characteristics of Japanese Painting ...By Noma-Seiroku Harada-Jiro 97

VI. A Study of The Varied Names for "Japan" (II) ....By Iwai-Hirosato 113

VII. The Hitachi-Fudoki or Records of Customs and Land of Hitachi (1) ...By Kōno-Shōzō Translated By Sakai-Atsuharu 145