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RIZAL IN JAPAN

CHAPTER XIII
RIZAL IN JAPAN

✣ Rizal left Hong Kong on board of the Oceanic,


an American steamer on his way to Japan.

✣ He arrived in Yokohama, Japan and stayed for


one day in Grand Hotel.

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RIZAL IN TOKYO

✣ After spending a day in Yokohama, Rizal went


to Tokyo and stayed in Tokyo Hotel for 5 days.

✣ Tokyo Hotel- where Rizal stayed from March


2-7 in Japan

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RIZAL’S LETTERS TO BLUMENTRITT

✣ Tokyo is more extensive than Paris.


✣ The walls are built in cyclopean manner.
✣ The streets are large and wide

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THINGS TO REMEMBER

✣ JUDO – Japanese art of self defense


✣ KABUKI – Japanese drama play.
✣ RICKSHAW - popular mode of transportation
which he did not like in Japan.

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RIZAL IN JAPAN

✣ JUAN PEREZ CABALLERO


-secretary of the Spanish legation
visited him in the hotel inviting him to
stay in the Spanish legation. Knowing
that it is a plot to monitor him, Rizal
accepted the offer for the following
reasons.

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REASONS WHY RIZAL ACCEPTED
CABALLERO’S PROPOSAL

✣ He could economize his living expenses


✣ He had nothing to hide from the prying eyes of the
Spanish authorities.
✣ He and Caballero became good friends. In Japan, Rizal
was embarrassed because he did not know how to speak
Niponggo (Japanese Language)
✣ He was mistaken as an Europeanized Japanese because
he looks like a Japanese and yet speaks in different
tongue.
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RIZAL’S IMPRESSIONS OF JAPAN

✣ The scenic beauty of the country


✣ The cleanliness, politeness and industry of the
Japanese people.
✣ The picturesque dress and simple charm of the
Japanese women.
✣ There were few thieves in Japan.
✣ Beggars are rarely seen in the city streets.
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RIZAL AND O-SEI-SAN

✣ A samurai’s daughter of 23 years


old and had never experienced
true love.
✣ Usui – San, her father; a store
owner.
✣ A woman of beauty, charm,
modesty and intelligence.
✣ Speaks French and English.

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RIZAL AND O-SEI-SAN

✣ When Rizal first introduced himself to her, he took of


his hat as a sign of respect ( A German custom)
✣ O-Sei-San was more than Rizal’s girlfriend for she was
his guide, interpreter and tutor.
✣ She improved his knowledge of the Japanese language.
✣ She eases the pain left by Leonor Rivera.
✣ Rizal and Osei – San are both theatre addicts.
✣ They attended some kabuki plays such as; Sendaihagi,
Manjiro Nakahama and Chushingura
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O-SEI-SAN AFTER RIZAL’S DEPARTURE
✣ Alfred Charlton – became the husband of O-Sei-San in
1897, one year after Rizal was executed.
✣ He was a British teacher of chemistry in Peers’ School
in Tokyo.
✣ They had a daughter named Yuriko, who married a son
of a Japanese senator
✣ Seiko-Usui died in 1947 at age 80 and was buried beside
her husband.

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SAYONARA JAPAN
✣ April 13, 1888 – Rizal left Japan boarded in Belgic, an
English steamer bound for United States
✣ Tetcho Suehiro – a fighting Japanese journalist,
novelist, champion of human rights, who was forced by
the government to leave Japan.
✣ He met a semi-Filipino family – Mr. Reinaldo Turner
and his wife Emma Jackson, their children and maid
from Pangasinan.

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TETCHO SUEHIRO
✣ Became a member of the Japanese
Imperial Diet (Parliament)
✣ Wrote two novels:
Nankai-no-Daiharan (Storm Over the
South Sea) – 1891 resembling Noli Me
Tangere
O-unabara (The Big Ocean) – 1894
resembling El Filibusterismo
✣ Died in 1896 at age 49 due to heart
attack.

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ADVOCATES OF FREEDOM

JOSE RIZAL TETCHO SUEHIRO


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