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Rizal traveled to Hong Kong and Macao in February 1888 at age 27. While in Hong Kong, he was welcomed by fellow Filipinos but was also followed by a Spanish spy. He found Hong Kong to be small but clean. In Macao, he stayed with a Portuguese man and witnessed a Catholic procession. Rizal then traveled to Japan, arriving in Yokohama on February 28. He was invited to live with the Spanish legislation and spent his time admiring Japan's beauty and polite people. Rizal developed a romance with a Japanese woman named O-Sei-San and was tempted to settle down, but instead departed Japan on April 13.

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Rizal traveled to Hong Kong and Macao in February 1888 at age 27. While in Hong Kong, he was welcomed by fellow Filipinos but was also followed by a Spanish spy. He found Hong Kong to be small but clean. In Macao, he stayed with a Portuguese man and witnessed a Catholic procession. Rizal then traveled to Japan, arriving in Yokohama on February 28. He was invited to live with the Spanish legislation and spent his time admiring Japan's beauty and polite people. Rizal developed a romance with a Japanese woman named O-Sei-San and was tempted to settle down, but instead departed Japan on April 13.

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LIFE AND WORKS OF RIZAL

Module No. 13 | Carlos Lois P. Sebastian | BSA1-SOUTH1

HONGKONG, MACAO, & JAPAN


IN HONGKONG & MACAO

Left Calamba in February 1888 -> Rizal: 27, physician & man-of-letters

TRIP TO HONGKONG

February 3, 1888  Manila -> Hongkong (Zafiro)


February 7, 1888  Stopover @ Amoy
 RIZAL did not get off:
 not well
 raining hard
 dirty city
February 8, 1888  Arrival & welcomed by:
o Jose Maria Basa, Balbino Mauricio, Manueal
Yriarte (son of Laguna’s alcalde-mayor).

 JOSE SAINZ DE VERANDA


o Spaniard; former secretary of GG
o Spanish authorities’s spy – shadow HIS
February 16, 1888  Wrote to BLUEMENTRITT -> Hong Kong = small, clean

TRIP TO MACAO

 MACAO -> Portuguese colony -> small, low, & gloomy


o junk & sampan -> no steamer
o sad & dead

February 18, 1888  Rizal and Basa -> Kiu-Kiang -> Macao

 Stayed at: DON JUAN FRANCISCO LECAROS ->


married to Protuguese woman

 Witnessed: Catholic prossession -> blue & purple dress w/


unlighted candles
February 20, 1888 (1) Rizal and Basa -> Kiu-Kiang -> Hongkong

 NOTES:
o Rizal -> Oceanic (american steamer) -> JAPAN
 his cabin mate is BRITISH – good man

ROMANTIC INTERLUDE IN THE LAND OF CHERRY BLOSSOM

 FEBRUARY 28 – APRIL 3, 1888 - one-month and half

February 28, 1888  Arrive in YOKOHAMA -> early Tuesday


March 2 – 7, 1888  GRAND HOTEL
 Bluementritt -> Tokyo > Paris, cyclopean manner;
large & wide street
Who invited Rizal to live at Spanish legislation?  JUAN PEREZ CABALLERO -> secretary

WHY RIZAL DID ACCEPT THE INVITATION TO LIVE AT SPANISH LEGISLATION?

 ECONOMIZE LIVING EXPENSE


 NOTHING TO HIDE from PRYING EYES

WHAT IMPRESSED RIZAL IN JAPAN? (CJJFR)

 COUNTRY’s BEAUTY -> mountain, flower etc.


 JAPANESE PEOPLE -> polite, clean
LIFE AND WORKS OF RIZAL
 JAPANESE WOMEN Module No. 13 | Carlos
-> picturesque Lois P.sweet
dress; Sebastian
charm| BSA1-SOUTH1
 FEW THIEVES -> house = open DnN -> hotel leave money
 RARELY SEEN BEGGARS -> Manila

ONLY DISLIKE|: Rickshaw -> transportation -> men as horse

ROMANCE WITH O-SEI-SAN

Who is O-Sei-San?  lovely, young, woman


 SPEAK: Japanese, English, French
 cameo-like bueaty, tender, high intelligence
What happened in the succeding days?  Rizal visits -> FRIENDSHIP  Romance
How O-sei-San and Rizal spent their time?  VISIT: old temple, art gallery
 WALK: moonlight
How fallen Rizal was?  Tempted to settle.

LEAVING JAPAN

April 13, 1888  Boarded BELGIC (english steamer) @ Yokohama ->


US
 TETCHO SUEHIRO -> JPN journalist, novelist,
champion -> forced by JPN to leave -> befriend RIZAL
April 13 to December 1, 1888  8 month acquiantanceship -> parted -> never saw

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