Ohayō

ROMANTIC INTERLUDE IN
JAPAN (1888)

Prepared by:
Joan Larapan 2BSED-Fil
 01 Desribe the words that are
related to the topic.
LEARNING
OBJECTIVES:
Explain each event on Rizal's
02 romantic interlude in Japan.

Recall and reflect the life of

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Jose Rizal's journey in Japan.
 February 28 - April 13, 1888

- One of the happiest

interludes in the life of Rizal
was his sojourn in the land of
Cherry Blossoms for one
month and a half.

- Rizal fall inlove with a

japanese girl named
Seiko Usui.
 Rizal Arrives in Yokohama
• February 28, 1888 - Early in the morning of
Tuesday Rizal arrived in Yokohama. He
registered at the grand hotel.
- Next day Rizal proceed to Tokyo and took a
room in Tokyo hotel.

- He wrote a letter to Blumentritt.

 Rizal In Tokyo

Juan Perez Caballero

- Secretary of the Spanish Legation.

- He visited Rizal at his hotel and invited
him to live at the Spanish Legation.
 Rizal accepted the invitation for two reasons...

He could economize his living expenses by staying

1.
at the legation.

He had nothing to hide from the prying eyes of the

2.
Spanish authorities.

• Juan Perez Caballero and • In a letter to Proff. Blumentritt he desribe

Rizal became good friends. the Spanish Diploment as:
“He is young, fine and excellent writer, an
able diplomat who had travelled much”.
Rizal did not know the Japanese Language..

01 02 02 03

- In Tokyo, very few - Rizal decided to study - Rizal studied also

spoke English but in the Japanese language the Japanese drama
Yokohama and was able to speak it and japanese art of
many speak it. within a few days. self defense.
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MEGURO RIVER
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NIKKO
 Rizal and the Tokyo Musicians

• March 1888 - one cool afternoon

Rizal was promenading in Tokyo. As he
approached a park, he heard the band
playing classical music and he was
impressed by the super performance of
the western music.

• The band stop playing then walk

around to rest and spoke Tagalog.
 Rizal's Impression in Japan
1. The beauty of the country.
2. The cleanliness, politeness and industry of the
Japanese people.
3. The picturesque dress and simple japanese
charm of japanese women.

4. There were very few thieves in Japan.

5. Beggars were rarely seen in city streets.
• However, there's one thing
which he did not like in Japan,
the popular mode of
transportation by means of
rickshaws draw by men.
 Romance with O-Sei-San

• He saw a pretty Japanese girl walking past the

legation gate.

• Rizal learned from the Japanese gardener that she

was Seiko Usui who lived in her parents home and
she used to pass the legation gate.

• The following afternoon, Rizal and the Japanese

gardener waited at the legation gate and watched for
the girl.
• Her name was Seiko Usui. Rizal fell in love
with Seiko.
He affectionately called her O-Sei-San.

• Rizal saw in lovely O-Sei-San the qualities

of his ideal womanhood - beauty, charm,
modesty, and intelligence.
• O-Sei-San helped Rizal in many ways. More than a
sweetheart, she was his guide, interpreter, and tutor. She
improved his knowledge of Nipponggo (Japanese Language)
and Japanese History.

• Together they visited insteresting spots: Imperial Art Gallery,

Imperial Library, Universities, Botanical Garden and Hibiyo
Park.
IMPERIAL ART
HIBIYA PARK
GALLERY

IMPERIAL LIBRARY
 Romans On O-Sei-San

• It's a great love for O-Sei-San is attested by

the heroes diary. On the eve of his departure he
wrote his diary. With this tenderly tragic entry in
his own diary, Rizal's bade farewell to lovely O-
Sei-San.
 Sayunara Japan

APRIL 13,1888

- He boarded the Belgic bound to the United

States. He left Japan with a heavy heart.Truly,
his sojourn in Japan for 45 days is one of the
happiest interludes in his life.
O-Sei-San After Rizal's Departure

• As everything on earth has to end, the beautiful romance

between Rizal and O-Sei-San came to a dolorous ending.

• Broken hearted by the departure of Rizal, the first man

who capture her heart. O-Sei-San mourned for a long time
the loss of her lover.
1897
• A year after Rizal's execution, she married Mr. Alfred Charlton a british
teacher in Peers school of Tokyo. Their wedlock was blessed by only one
child - a daughter named Yuriko. After how many years of teaching,
Charlton awarded by the Japanese government with an imperial
decorations. He later died on November 2, 1915.

• Mrs. Charlton lived in a comfortable home in Shinjuko district,

Tokyo. She survived World War II, but her home was destroyed in
1944 by the U.S. bombing of Tokyo. She died on May 1, 1947 at the
age of 80 and was buried in her husband's tomb at Zoshigawa
Cemetery.
 Voyage Across the Pacific

• Despite his sorrowing heart, Rizal enjoyed the pleasant trans-Pacific

voyage to the United States. On board the ship, he met a semi-Filipino
family Mr. Reinaldo Turner, his wife Emma Jackson (daughter of an
Englishman, their children, and their maid servant from Panggasinan.

• 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," Rizal replied.
 Tetcho Suehiro

• A fighting Japanese journalist,

novelist, and champion of human
rights was forced by the Japanese
government to leave the country,
just as Rizal was compelled to
leave the Philippines by the
Spanish authorities.
• Tetcho came to admire Rizal, whose patriotism and magnificent talents
greatly fascinated him and influenced him to fortify his own crusade for
human rights in his own country.

• The following year, he published a political novel titled 'Nankai-no-

Daiharan' (Storm Over the South Sea) which resembles Rizal's 'Noli Me
Tangere' in plot.

• He then published another novel entitled 'O-unabara' (The Big

Ocean) which was similar to 'El Filibusterismo".

• Tetch died of heart attack in Tokyo in February, 1896 (ten

months before Rizal's execution). He was then 49 years old.
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