Avalokiteśvara's Manifestation as the Virgin Mary: The Jesuit Adaptation and the Visual Conflation in Japanese Catholicism after 1614

Since St. Francis Xavier landed in Kagoshima in 1549, the Jesuit mission in Japan had achieved an amazing number of conversions, even though their activity lasted for merely about fifty years. Their great success came to an abrupt end in 1614 when the Bakufu government began the full proscription an...

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Main Author: Shin, Junhyoung Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2011
In: Church history
Year: 2011, Volume: 80, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-39
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