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A Chameleonic Icon: Questioning the Underground Christian Identity of an Edo-period Amida Sculpture in the Nyoirin Kannon-dō, Kawaguchi City

Smith, Rachel (University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)

In 1956, a statuette of a female deity and crucifix were discovered inside of a seventeenth-century Amida Buddha statue enshrined in the Nyoirin Kannon-dō, Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan (“Kawaguchi Amida”). ...