1) Rizal had romantic relationships with several Japanese and European women during his travels, including O-Sei-San in Japan, Gertrude Beckett and Nellie Bousted in Europe. 2) O-Sei-San, whose real name was Seiko Usui, married an English teacher and had a daughter before passing away after surviving World War II. 3) Gertrude Beckett fell in love with Rizal while he boarded with her family in London, though he left to avoid the relationship developing further.

1. RIZAL’S
RELATIONSHIPS

2. O SEI SAN
Her real name was Seiko Usui
2

3. 3

4. ◈ One spring afternoon, a few days after he
had moved to the Spanish Legation in the
Azabadu district of Tokyo. Rizal saw a
pretty Japanese girl walking past the legation
gate. Being a man with an eye for feminine
beauty, he was attracted to her regal
liveliness and charm. He craved to meet her. 4

5. ◈ Then A Japanese Gardener told him that the
girl’s name was Seiko Usui. The following
afternoon, Rizal and the Japanese gardener
waited at the legation gate and watched for
the girl. As she approached, he took off his
hat and politely introduced himself. She also
helped Rizal improve his knowledge of
Japanese language.
5

6. “
Ikaw ang kulay ng kamelya, ang
pagkasariwa nito, ang pagiging
elegante. O-Sei-San – Sayonara!
Sayonara! “
– Jose Rizal
6

7. ◈ About 1897, a year after Rizal’s execution,
she married Mr. Alfred Charlton, British
Teacher of chemistry of the Peers’ School in
Tokyo. Their wedlock was blessed by only
one child – a daughter named Yuriko.
7

8. ◈ After many years of teaching, Charlton was
awarded by the Japanese governmentwith an
imperial decoration – Order of Merit, 5th
Class. He died on November 2, 1915
◈ survived by O-Sei-San, whose real name ws
Seiko Usui, and their daughter Yuriko.
8

9. ◈ This daughter later married Yoshiharu
Takiguchi, son of a Japanese senator. Mrs.
Charlton (O-Sei-San), as a widow, 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
9

10. ◈ She died on May 1, 1947 at the age of 80.
she was buried in her husband’s tomb at
Zoshigawa Cemetery. A Japanese inscription
on their tomb reads as follows: Alfred
Charlton, 5th Order of Merit, and wife
Seiko.
10

11. GERTRUDE BECKETT
11

12. 12

13. ◈ While Rizal was in London annotating the
Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, he boarded in
the house of the Beckett family, within
walking distance of the British Museum.
◈ A blue eye and buxom girl was the oldest of
the three Beckett daughters. She fell in love
with Rizal. 13

14. ◈ Tottie helped him in his painting and
sculpture.
◈ But Rizal suddenly left London for Paris to
avoid Gertrude, who was seriously in love
with him.
◈ Before leaving London, he was able to finish
the group carving of the Beckett sisters. 14

15. ◈ He gave the group carving to Gertrude as a
sign of their brief relationship.
15

16. “
“Siya ay isang dalagang may asul na
mga mata, mapupulang pisngi at
buhok na kulay-kayumanggi.”
– Jose Rizal
16

17. NELLIE BOUSTED
17

18. 18

19. ◈ Rizal having lost Leonor Rivera, entertained
the thought of courting other ladies.
◈ While a guest of the Boustead family at their
residence in the resort city of Biarritz, he had
befriended the two pretty daughters of his
host, Eduardo Boustead.
19

20. ◈ Rizal used to fence with the sisters at the
studio of Juan Luna. Antonio Luna, Juan’s
brother and also a frequent visitor of the
Boustead's, courted Nellie but she was
deeply infatuated with Rizal.
20

21. ◈ In a party held by Filipinos in Madrid, a
drunken Antonio Luna uttered unsavory
remarks against Nellie Boustead.
◈ This prompted Rizal to challenge Luna into
a duel.
◈ Fortunately, Luna apologized to Rizal, thus
averting tragedy for the compatriots 21

22. ◈ Rizal used to fence with the sisters at the
studio of Juan Luna. Antonio Luna, Juan’s
brother and also a frequent visitor of the
Boustead's, courted Nellie but she was
deeply infatuated with Rizal.
22

23. ◈ Their love affair unfortunately did not end in
marriage.
◈ It failed because Rizal refused to be
converted to the Protestant faith, as Nellie
demanded and Nellie’s mother did not like a
physician without enough paying clientele to
be a sonin-law. 23

24. ◈ The lovers, however, parted as good friends
when Rizal left Europe.
24

25. SUZANNE JACOBY
25

26. 26

27. ◈ In 1890, Rizal moved to Brussels because of
the high cost of living in Paris.
◈ In Brussels, he lived in the boarding house
of the two Jacoby sisters.
◈ In time, they fell deeply in love with each
other. Suzanne cried when Rizal left
Brussels and wrote him when he was in
Madrid. 27

28. JOSEPHINE BRACKEN
28

29. 29

30. ◈ In the last days of February 1895, while still
in Dapitan, Rizal met an 18-year old petite
Irish girl, with bold blue eyes, brown hair
and a happy disposition.
◈ She was Josephine Bracken, the adopted
daughter of George Taufer from Hong Kong,
who came to Dapitan to seek Rizal for eye
treatment.
30

31. ◈ Rizal was physically attracted to her.
◈ His loneliness and boredom must have taken
the measure of him and what could be a
better diversion that to fall in love again.
◈ But the Rizal sisters suspected Josephine as
an agent of the friars and they considered her
as a threat to Rizal’s security.
31

32. ◈ Rizal asked Josephine to marry him, but she
was not yet ready to make a decision due to
her responsibility to the blind Taufer. His
loneliness and boredom must have taken the
measure of him and what could be a better
diversion that to fall in love again.
32

33. ◈ Since Taufer’s blindness was untreatable, he
left for Hong Kong on March 1895.
◈ Josephine stayed with Rizal’s family in
Manila.
◈ Upon her return to Dapitan, Rizal tried to
arrange with Father Antonio Obach for their
marriage.
33

34. ◈ However, the priest wanted a retraction as a
precondition before marrying them.
◈ Rizal upon the advice of his family and
friends and with Josephine’s consent took
her as his wife even without the Church
blessings.
34

35. ◈ Josephine later give birth prematurely to a
stillborn baby, a result of some incidence,
which might have shocked or frightened her.
35