Japanese objects in New Spain:<i>nanban</i>art and beyond

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsSonia I. Ocaña RuizSonia I. Ocaña Ruiz received her PhD. in History of Art from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in 2011. She is a professor in the History Department of the Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Mexico. She has focused on the study of the artistic relationship between New Spain and Asia. She is a member of the Mexican Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. With a research grant from Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología de México (CONACYT), she is currently developing the research project 'La domesticación de Asia: las relaciones artísticas transpacíficas en la Nueva España.'Rie ArimuraRie Arimura received her PhD. in History of Art from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in 2011. Her doctoral dissertation, entitled 'Iglesias kirishitan: el arte de lo efímero en las misiones católicas en Japón (1549–1639),' was awarded by the Mexican Academy of Sciences and published as a book by the Universidad Iberoamericana in 2017. Since 2013, she has been an associate professor at UNAM. Her research interests focus on the mendicant art in colonial Mexico and the artistic relations between Asia and the Americas.

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  2026-04-30T19:55:57.061348+00:00

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