Chapter 12

Romantic

Interlude in

Japan (1888)
Happiest interludes in life of Rizal
RIZAL ARRIVES IN YOKOHAMA
February 28,1888- Yokohama
March 2- 7- Tokyo
Professor Blumentrit "Tokyo is
more expensive than Paris. The
walls are built in cyclopean
manner. The streets are large
and wide"
rIZAL IN TOKYO He accepts for 2 reasons

Juan Perez Caballero 1) he could economize his living expenses by

-secretary of the staying at the legation
Spanish Legation 2) he had nothing to hide from prying eyes
-Invited him to live at on the Spanish authorities
the Spanish Legation

Rizal decided to study

March 7 Japanese

Japanese drama(kabuki)
He checked out of Tokyo and lived at the
arts, music, and judo(japanese art and art of self-
Spanish Legation. He and Perez Cballero
defense)
became good friends. In a letter to
He browsed in the museums, libraries, art
Bluementritt he described the Spanish
galleries, and shrines.
diplomat as "young, fine, and excellent
He visited Meguro, Nikko, Hakone, Miyanoshita,

writer" and "an diplomat who had

and the charming villages of japan.

traveled much"
 Rizal and the tokyo Musicians
Western music
He thought: "How admirable was the rendition. I wonder
how these Japanese people have assimilated the modern
European music to the extent of playing the beautiful
musical masterpieces of the great European composers so
well!"
Rizal's Impression of Japan
01 The beauty of the country- its flowers,
mountains, streams, and scenic
04 There were very few thieves in Japan
so that the houses remained open day
panoramas and night, and in hotel room one could
safely leave money on the table

02 The cleanliness, politeness, and

industry of Japanese people.
05 Beggars were rarely seen in the
city streets, unlike in Manila and
other cities

03 The picturesque dress and simple

charm of the Japanese women
 Romance with
O-Sei-San
Spring afternoon, a few days after he had
moved to the Spanish Legation in the
Azabu district of Tokyo, Rizal saw a pretty
Japanese Girl
Rizal made inquiries among the legation
employees
Rizal and the Japanese gardener waited at
the legation gate and watched for the girl.
Imperial art Library Hibiya Park

Botanical Garden
Romance with O-Sei-San
Rizal's Japanese was still very poor
The language barrier was thus
eliminated
O-Sei-San qualifies his ideal
womanhood
O-Sei-San helped Rizal in many ways
April 13,1888, Rizal
boarded the Belgic, an
English steamer at
Yokohama, bound to
United States
 O-Sei-San After Rizal's Departure
The beautiful romance between
Rizal and O-Sei-San inevitably
came to dolorous ending,
About 1897, after a year, she
married Mr. Alfred Charlton,
British teacher of chemistry of
Peers' School in Tokyo, Died
November 2, 1915
They had only child- a daughter
named Yuriko.
Yuriko later married a son of
Japanese senator, Yoshiharu
Takiguchi
O-Sei-San survived World war 2
but her home was destroyed in
1944 by the U.S. bombing of
Tokyo. Died at the age of 80
Zoshigawa Cemetery
 He met a semi-Filipino family -
Mr. Reinaldo Turner, his wife
VOYAGE ACROSS Emma Jackson (daughter of an
Englishman, their children and
PACIFIC maid servant

One day one of the children, a bright young

boy, asked Rizal:
" Do you know, sir, a famous man in Manila
named Richal? He wrote a novel, Noli Me
Tangere.

"Yes, hijo, I am Richal"

Tetcho Suehiro, a fighting Japanese, Rizal
journalist, novelist and champion of
human rights, who was forced by the
and
Japanese government to leave the Tetcho
country, just as Rizal was compelled
to leave the Philippines by the
Spanish authorities
Rizal and Tetcho were kindred
spirits. Both were valiant
patriots, implacable foes of
injustice and tyranny. Both
April 13- December 1, 1888
were men of peace using their
Tetcho came to admire
trenchant pens as formidable
Rizal, whose patriotism
weapons to fight for their
peoples; welfare and and magnificent talents
happiness greatly fascinated him and
influenced him to fortify
his own crusade for human
rights in his own country
 After he published his
On December 1. 1888,
diary, he resigned his
after a last warm position as editor of
handshake and bidding Tokyo newspaper, Choya,
each other "goodbye" and entered politics

In 1889, shortly after his In 1890 he was elected

return to Japan, he as member of the lower
published his travel diary house of the First
which contained his Imperial Diet( Japanese
parliament)
impressions of Rizal
1891- Nankai-no-
Daiharan (storm Over
the South Sea)
1894- O-unabara (The
big ocean)