The talk analyzes the representations of Japan and the Kirishitan that circulated widely during the Edo period in three pseudohistorical narratives of the arrival and expulsion of the Christian missionaries. In these tales, the Kirishitan is subdued not only through expulsion, but also by his representation as an uncouth and very common villain, in contrast to the civilized Japanese. And just as the barbarian Other is ritually defeated and abjected in the tales through the plot and the representation of that Other, it is also conquered through a geographic and cultural representation that places Japan at the center, and the Kirishitan on the periphery.