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Japan, Society of Jesus, Catholic Church, Tokugawa Period.
In 1549, the Jesuit Francisco Xavier arrived in Japan with the purpose of bringing Christianity to Japanese lands. Jesuit preaching traveled throughout the archipelago; however, the Christian/Portuguese influence was especially strong on the island of Kyushu. Ending the reunification process that Japan was going through, in 1603, the Tokugawa period officially began, and with it the consolidation of a series of political-administrative changes. The Tokugawa period, at the beginning, had a good relationship with the Christians who lived in the archipelago, but this scenario soon changes with the edict of 1614 and the prohibition of the practice of Christianity in the region. By this time, being a Christian in Japan had become a dangerous condition, especially if you were a priest, but it was not until the Shimabara-Amakusa revolution that the government found the necessary excuse to expel the Jesuits and the Portuguese from their lands. In 1639 the final edict of expulsion was issued, sentencing to death all Christian foreigners who were on Japanese soil. This work intends to analyze the notion of religiosity created by the Jesuits, destined to the Catholic faith that influenced part of the Japanese population and modified its territorialities.