CHAPTER 12

ROMANTICINTERLUDE
IN JAPAN
RIZAL ARRIVES
IN YOKOHAMA

In February 28,1888.
Early in the morning
rizal arrive in
Yokohama. He
regestered at the Grand
Hotel.
Rizal in Tokyo

Next day Rizal proceed

to tokyo and took a
room in tokyo
Hotel.He wrote to
professor Blumentritt:
-Secretary of the
spanish legation.
-He visited Rizal at his
hotel and invited him
to live at the Spanish
legation.
TOKYO HOTEL

Juan Pérez Caballero

-Rizal accepted the
invitation because:(1) He
could economize his
living expenses by staying "Professor Blumentritt he
at the Legation.(2)He had is a young, fine, and
nothing to hide from the excellent writer and an
prying eyes of the spanish able diplomant who had
authorities. traveled much".
-They become good Jose Rizal
friends. In a letter to
Blumentritt, he describe
the spanish diplomant as:
Rizal did not know the
Japanese language. To
avoid further
embarrassment:Rizal
decided to study the
japanese language. He
also studied the japanese
drama(kabuki), japanese
art of self defense (judo),
art and music.
RIZAL VISITED
 • -As he approached a park, he
heard the band playing
classical music and he was
impressed!.
• -He though, "how admirable
RIZAL AND was the rendition. I wonder
how these japanese people
THE TOKYO have assimilated the modern
european music to the
MUSICIANS extent of playing the
beautiful musical
masterpieces of the great
european composers so well.
• The band stopped playing
and walked around to
rest,and spoke tagalog.
 • The beauty of the country(
its flowers, mountains,
streams and scenic
panoramas).
• (2)the cleanliness,
RIZAL'S politeness, and industry of
IMPRESSION OF •
the japanese people.
(3)the ppicturesque dress
JAPAN and simple charm of the
japanese women.
• (4)these were few theives
so the place were open
day and night.
• (5)Beggar's were rarely
seen in the city streets.
The only thing rizal
was not in favor of
was the popular
mode of
transportation by
means of rickshows
drawn by men.
• One spring afternoon,
Romance with
afew days after he had o-sei-san
moved to the spanish
legation, rizal saw a
pretty japanese girl
walking past the legation
gate.
• Rizal was attracted by
her regal loveliness,
charm, and modesty,
intelligence.

• She saw also his guide,

tutor and interpreter.
He wanted to meet her,
but how? Rizal learned
from a japanese gardener
that she was seiko usui,
who lived in her parents
home and she used to
pass by the legation
during her daily afternoon
walk. The Following
afternoon,rizal and the
japanese gardenerwaited
at the legation gate and
watched for the girl.
They visited the
interesting spots of the
city.
Sayonara Japan

After 45 days in japan.

On april 13,1888 rizal
boarded 'belgic' bound
for united states. His
sojourn in japan was
one of the happiest
interlude in his life.
 O-sei-san after Rizal's
Departure

Brokenhearted by the first

man to capture her heart.
About 1897,she married Mr.
Alfred chariton . British
chemistry teacher in tokyo.
Their wedlock was blessed by
a doughter named yukiro,
later yukiro married
yoshiharuTakiguchi, son of a
japanese senator.
O-sei-san survivedworld war
ll. And died at the age of 80,
May 1,1947.
Voyage across the pacific

Despite his sorrowing

heart, Rizal enjoyed the
pleasant trans-pacific
voyage to the united
states. On bored the ship
he met a semi-filipino
family Mr.Reinaldo, his
wife Emma Jackson
(daugther of an
englishman) their children
and their maid servant
from pangasinan.
One day one of the
children, abright young
boy, asked rizal:
“Do you know a
famous man in manila
named Richal? He
wrote a novel, nole Me
Tangere."Rizal replied.
Yes hijo, I am Richal.
• Shortly after his return
to japan, tetcho
published his travel
diary which contained • The following year, he
his impression of rizal published a political
he then entered into novel titled "Nankai-no-
politics and was Daihara"(storm over
elected as memeber of the south sea) which
the lower house of first resembles rizals "Noli
imperial diet(japanes Me Tangere" in a plot.
parliament), where he
arrived on his fight for
human rigts.
• He then published
another novel entitled
"O-Unabara"(The big
ocean) which was
similar to """El
filibusterismo".

Tetcho deid of heart

attack in tokyo in
Fubruary, 1896( ten
months before Rizals
execution) He was then
49 years old.
 THE END.
Submitted by:
ANGELICA CACHUELA
B.
Submitted to:
MA'AM QUENIE ALBA