Chapter 12

ROMANTIC
INTERLUDE in
JAPAN
(1888)
RIZAL ARRIVES IN YOKOHAMA
• February 28,1888-Rizzal arrives in Yokohama and He
registered at the Grand Hotel.
• “Tokyo is more expensive than Paris. The walls are
built in cyclopean manner. The streets are large and
wide”
• He wrote to professor Blumentritt.
RIZAL in TOKYO
• Juan Perez Caballero- Secretary of the Spanish
Legation.
• March 7- Rizal checked out of Tokyo Hotel and
lived at the Spanish Legation
• Letter to Bulmentritt – he described the Spanish
diplomat as “ a young, fine, and excellent writer”
and “an able diplomat who had travelled much”
Rizal and the Tokyo Musician
Rizal Impression of Japan
• 5 things which favorably impressed Rizal in Japan.
1.the beauty of the country-its flower, mountains,
streams, and scenic panoramas.
2.the cleanliness, politeness, and industry of the
Japanese people.
3.the picturesque dress and simple charm of the
Japanese people.
there were very few thieves in japan so that the houses remained open
day and night, in the hotel room one could safely money on the table.
5.beggars were rarely seen in the city streets, unlike in manila and
other cities.
ROMANCE with O-SIE-SAN(SEIKO-SAN)
• On the eve of his departure, he wrote his diary “Japan has enchanted
me. The beautiful scenery, the flowers, the trees, and the habitants-so
peaceful, so courteous, and so pleasant”. To O-SIE-SAN “To you I
didicate the final chapter of these memoirs of my truth. No woman,
like you, has ever loved me. No woman like has ever sacrificed me.
Like the flower of the chodji that falls from the stem fresh and whole
without falling leaves or without withering –with poetry still despite
its fall –thus you fell. Niether have you lost your purity nor have the
delicate petals of your innocence faded— Sayonara, Sayonara!.
• With this tenderly tragic entry in his own diary, Rizal bade farewell to
lovely O-SIE-SAN .
SAYONARA JAPAN-
• April 13,1888- Rizal boarded the Belgic, An English steamer, at
Yokohama, bound for the United States . He left Japan with a heavy
heart, for he knew that he would never see again this beautiful “Land
of the cherry blossoms” and his beloved O-Sie-San.
• O-SIE-SAN AFTER RIZAL DEPARTURE- The beautiful romanc between
Rizal and O-Sie-San inevitably came to a dolorous ending. Sacrificing
his personal happiness , Rizal had to carry on his libertarian mission in
Europe