Hongkong, Macao,

and Japan, 1888

By: Mr. Vince Allen C. Castillo, LPT
At the end of the module, students will
be able to:
1. Discover the Rizal’s romantic
side in Japan
IN HONGKONG AND MACAO (1888)
Rizal was forced to leave his country for a second time
in February 1888.

He was then a full-grown man of 27 years of age, a

practicing physician, and a recognized man-of-letters.
THE TRIP TO HONGKONG
On February 3, 1888 Rizal left Manila for Hong Kong on board the
Zafiro. February 7, 1888 the Zafiro made a brief stopover at Amoy,

Rizal did not get off his ship at Amoy for three reasons:

(1) he was not feeling well

(2) it was raining hard
(3) he heard that the city was dirty.
• Jose Maria Basa, Balbino Mauricio, and Manuel Yriarte
(son of Francisco Yriarte, alcalde mayor of Laguna).

• Jose Sainz de Varanda - former secretary of Governor

General Terrero, shadowed Rizal’s movement in Hong Kong,
to spy on rizal

• Rizal wrote to Blumentritt on February 16, 1888 saying

that Hong Kong “is a small, but very clean city.”
VISIT TO MACAO
• According to Rizal, the city of Macao is small, low, and
gloomy. There are many junks, sampans, but few steamers.
It looks sad and is almost dead.

• February 18, 1888, Rizal witnessed a Catholic possession, in

which the devotees were dressed in blue and purple dresses
and were carrying unlighted candles.
 ROMANTIC INTERLUDE IN JAPAN (1888)
• One of the happiest interludes in the life of Rizal was his sojourn in
the Land of the Cherry Blossoms for one month and a half
(February 28-April 13, 1888).

• Juan Perez Caballero - secretary of the Spanish Legation, invited him

to live at the Spanish Legation. Rizal accepted the invitation for two
reasons:
(1) he could economize his living expenses by
staying at the legation
(2) he had nothing to hide from the prying eyes of the
Spanish authorities.
 The things which favorably
impressed Rizal in Japan were:
(1) the beauty of the country—its flowers, 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
women
(4) there were very few thieves in Japan
(5) beggars were rarely seen in the city, streets, unlike in
Manila and other cities
Romance with O-Sei-San
O-Sei-San is a lovely young woman who is fluent in
three languages—Japanese, English and French.

He was impressed by the girl’s cameo-like beauty,

charming tenderness, and high intelligence.

Rizal and O-Sei-San spent a happy month—visiting old

temples and art galleries, walking along the cool meadows
in the moonlight, and many more.
On April 13, 1888 Rizal left Japan and boarded the Belgic, an English
steamer, at Yokohama, bound for the United States.

Tetcho Suehiro, a fighting Japanese journalist, novelist and

champion of human rights, who was forced by the Japanese
government to leave the country.

From April 13 to December 1, 1888, with eight months of intimate

acquaintanceship of Rizal and Tetcho they parted ways and bidding
each other’s goodbye. They never met again.
Rizal in America,
1888 and Life and
Works in London,
1888-89
Learning Targets: At the end of the
module, students will be able to:

1. Emerged with the aims of La

Solidaridad
2. Inspire to the Young Women of
Malolos
Your group is assigned to create a DOODLE
ART in a bond paper that will discussed our
Module 14 “Rizal in America, 1888 and Life
and Works in London, 1888-89”. You can use
words, phrases, sentences and even symbols in
modules in creating your doodle art. There
will be a rubric on how your work will be
graded.
Guidelines!
1. All words, phrases and sentences that you will be
putting on your doodle art, must be written on separate
paper (One whole yellow pad)
2. All highlighted phrases that you can see on the
module will be EMPHASIZE on the doodle.
3. Group member that will not contribute on the doodle
art will be listed as absent and ZERO on the given
activity.
 CRITERIA
COMPLETENESS The doodle art is The doodle art is The doodle art is The data of the doodle
and ACCURACY of complete and accurate complete but not accurate but missed art is not complete
the CONTENT with all the necessary accurate with all the some data. and not accurate.
data. necessary data. (10) (5)
(20) (15)

CREATIVITY and The doodle art shows The doodle art shows The doodle art shows The doodle art lacks
UNIQUNESS of the creativity and lacks of creativity and creativity but lacks of creativity and lacks
PROJECT uniqueness. uniqueness. uniqueness. uniqueness.
(20) (15) (10) (5)

NEATNESS and The doodle art is very The doodle art is The doodle art The doodle art was
PUNCTUALITY of neat. It was submitted somewhat neat. It was somewhat neat and not neat and It was
the PROJECT before/on the submitted before/on submitted but submitted late.
deadline. the deadline. 5minutes late. (3)
(10) (7) (5)

TOTAL 50 37 25 13