Rizal at 27 years old – he was a Physician and recognized man of letters

After six months of stay in Calamba, Rizal went to Hong Kong, he stayed at Victoria
Hotel, he was welcomed by Filipino residents:
• Jose Maria Basa
• Balbino Mauricio
• Manuel Yriarte (son of Francisco Yriarte, alcalde mayor of Laguna)

Jose Sainz de Varanda – a former secretary of Governor General Terrero, he was

assigned by the Spanish authorities to spy Rizal in Hong Kong

Visit to Macao – Rizal and Basa boarded the ferry steamer Kiu-Kang, they stayed at the
home of Don Juan Francisco Lecaros (a Filipino gentleman married to a
Portuguese lady)

Macao – small, low and gloomy

Grotto of Camoens – Portugal’s national poet

Experiences in Hong Kong:

• Noisy celebration of Chinese New Year
• Boisterous Chinese theatre, with noisy audience and noisier music
• Marathon Lauriat party
• Dominican order – richest religious order in Hong Kong
• Hong Kong Cemeteries

Departure from Hong Kong – Rizal boarded the Oceanic, an American steamer, going
to Japan
Japan – Land of the Cherry Blossom (also Land of the Rising Sun ehe..)
Tokyo – Rizal said that it is more expensive than Paris
Juan Perez Caballero – secretary of the Spanish Legation who invited Rizal to live at
the Spanish Legation

Rizal accepted Caballero’s invitation because:

• He could economize his living expenses by staying at the legation
• He had nothing to hide from the prying eyes of the Spanish authorities

Rizal’s impression of Japan:

• The beauty of the country
• The cleanliness, politeness and industry of the Japanese people
• The picturesque dress and simple charm of the Japanese women
• Very few thieves
• Beggars are rarely seen in the city streets

Not so good impression of Rizal of Japan – the mode of transportation, Rickshaws, the
men are pulling the carts like a horse
O-Sei-San – Rizal met her in Japan, real name Seiko Usui, a samurai’s daughter of 23
years old, after her romance with Rizal, she married Alfred Charlton
Tetcho Suehiro – a fighting Japanese, journalist, novelist, and champion of human rights
and was also forced by Japanese to leave the country whom Rizal met on
board Belgic going to United States

Market Street – best street in San Francisco, wrote Rizal in his diary
Leland Stanford – a millionaire senator representing California in the US Senate,
founder and benefactor of Stanford University
Dupont Street – in Chinatown, now the Grant Avenue
Grover Cleveland – the President at the time when Rizal stayed in California
Reno, Nevada – The Biggest Little City in the World
New York – Rizal called it Big Town

Rizal’s impression of America:

• Material progress of the country
• Drive energy of the American people
• Natural beauty of the land
• High standard of living
• Opportunities for better life offered to poor immigrants

Not so good impression of America – lack of racial equality

After visiting the United States, he went to London

Rizal chose London because:

• He wants to improve his knowledge of English Language
• To study and annotate Morga’s Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, a rare cop of which he
heard to be available in the British Museum
• London was a safe place for him to carry on his fight against Spanish tyranny

yo-yo – a small wooden disc attached to a string from the finger, Rizal showed his
marvelous skill to Americans and Europeans how to used it as a weapon

Dr. Antonio Regidor – practicing lawyer in London and the owner of the guest home
where Rizal stayed when he was in London

No. 37 Chalot Crescent Primrose Hill – a boarding place where Rizal boarded with the
Beckett Family

Getrude Beckett – Rizal had a romance with her, a buxom English girl with brown hair,
blue eyes, and rosy cheeks, Rizal called her “Gettie” or “Pettie”
Good and Bad news from home:
• Persecution of the Filipino patriots
• Persecution of the Calamba tenants
• Furious attacks on Rizal by Senator Salamanca and Vida in the Spanish Cortes and by
Desenganos (Wenceslao E. Retana) and Quioquiap (Pablo Feced)
• Rizal’s brother-in-law and husband of Saturnina , Manuel T. Hidalgo, was exiled by
Governor General Weyler to Bohol without due process law
• A friend of Rizal, Laureano Viado, a medical student at the University of Santo Tomas,
was arrested and jailed in Bilibid Prison because copies of Noli Me Tangere were foun
in his house
• (good news) Rev. Vicente Garcia defended the Noli against the attacks of the friars

Asociacion La Solidaridad (Solidaridad Association) – a society inaugurated on

December 31, 1888, Rizal was chosen as the Honorary President
Officers:
• Galicno Apacible – president
• Graciano Lopez Jaena – vice president
• Manuel Santa Maria – secretary
• Mariano Ponce – treasurer
• Jose Ma. Panganiban – accountant

La Solidaridad – the patriotic newspaper founded by Graciano Lopez Jaena in

Barcelona, it served as the organ of Propaganda Movement
Los Agricultores Filipinos (The Filipino Farmers) first article of the La Solidaridad

Dimas Alang – nom de plume of Rizal in his pamphlet La Vision del Fray Rodriguez
(The Vision of Fray Rodriguez)
Chapter 11

Stop over in Amoy, Rizal did not get off the ship because:
• He was not feeling well
• It was raining hard
• He heard that the city is dirty

February 8 – he arrived in Hong Kong

Hong Kong – a small city but very clean, there are many: Portuguese, Hindus, English,
Chinese and Jews

While boarding in Kiu-Kang with Basa, he saw Sainz de Varanda

Macao – Portuguese Colony near Hong Kong (there are many junks, sampans, but few
steamer
In the evening of Feb 19 – he saw a Catholic procession, devotees are wearing blue and
purple dresses and carrying unlighted candles
Rizal noticed in Theatre (Hong Kong)
• A man astride a stick means a man riding on horseback
• An actor raising his leg means he is entering a house
• A red dresses indicates a wedding
• A girl about to be married coyly covers her face with fan
• A man rising a whip means he is about to ride a horse

Dominican order owned more than 700 houses for rent

Honkong Cemeteries – belonging to the: Portuguses(most beautiful), Catholics(most

pompous), and Muslims(simplest)
Rizals cabinmate in Oceanic – a British Protestant missionary (Rizal called him “a good
man”)

Chapter 12
Tokyo walls – built in cyclopean manner
Kabuki – Japanese drama
Judo – Japanese art of self-defense

Rizal studied in Japan:

• Japanese language
• Kabuki
• Arts
• Music
• Judo

Rizal and the Tokyo musician – he heard them palying classical work of Strauss, then he
was amazed when he heard them talking in Tagalog

Japanese Gardener – sa garderner na ‘to nakilala ni Rizal si Oseisan

Mga binista nina Rizal at Oseisan (kung saan sila nagdate ahaha)
• Imperial Art Gallery
• Imperial Library
• Japanese Universities
• Shokubutsu-en (Botanical Garden)
• Hibiya Park

Nagustuhan ni Rizal kay Oseisan

• Beauty
• Charm
• Modesty
• Intelligence
Nagustuhan ni Oseisan kay Rizal
• Gallantry
• Dignity
• Courtesy
• Versatility

Nippongo – Japanese language

Alfred Charlton – ang nagging asawa ni Oseisan after nila maghiwalay ni Rizal

Semi-Filipino family na nakilala ni Rizal – Reinaldo Turner and Emma Jackson

Nankai-no Daihara (Storm over the South Sea) – a political novel of Suehiro which
resembles Rizal’s Noli me Tangere
O-unabara (The Big Ocean) – novel of Suehiro similar to El Filibusterismo

Chapter 13 and 14

Palace Hotel – where Rizal stayed when he was in San Francisco, he paid $4 a day
City of Rome – second largest ship in the world, the steamer where Rizal boarded going
to Liverpool
Great Eastern – largest ship in the world

Jose Alejandro – roommate ni Rizal, he is studying Engineering in Belgium

Dr. Reinaldo Rost – librarian of the Ministry if Foreign Affairs and an authority on
Malayan languages and customs

A pearl of man (una perla de hombre) – tawag ni Dr. Rost kay Rizal

Cricket – a popular English game na nilalaro ni Rizal

Greatest achievement of Rizal in London – annotating Morga’s book “Sucesos de las

Islas Filipinas”
(writers: Fr. Chirino, Fr. Colin, Fr.
Argensola, Fr. Plasencia, and Dr. Morga)

Andres (nickname Luling) – son of Juan Luna and Paz Pardo de Tavera

Two titans of Propaganda Movement

• Marcelo H. del Pilar
• Mariano Ponce
Bust of Emperor Augustus – Christmas gift of Rizal kay Blumentritt
Bust of Julius Ceasar – Christmas gift ni Rizal kay Dr. Calos Czepelak
The Life and Adventure of Valentine Vox, the Ventriloquist – Christmas gift ni Mrs.
Beckett kay Rizal, isa yang book

Aims of La Solidaridad
• To work peacefully for political and social reforms
• To portray the deplorable conditions of the Philippines
• To oppose the evil forces of reaction and medievalism
• To advocate liberal ideas and progress
• To champion the legitimate aspirations of Filipino people

Rizal’s four sculpture in London

1. Prometheus Bound
2. The Triumph of Death over Life
3. The Triumph of Science over Death
4. a composite carving of the heads of the Beckett sisters

Good Luck!!!
Nico Lopez 