Part 3 < Lesson 9 < 音読ツール｜ELEMENT English Communication Ⅰ

While I was staying in a large country /

called Luggnagg, /

I met a trader /

who could take me to a far eastern country /

called Japan. //

I decided to join them, /

because I knew /

there were a lot of Dutch traders there /

who could take me back to England. //

I asked the Luggnagg King /

for a personal letter to the Japanese emperor /

for my safety, /

and he was kind enough /

to write one for me. //

The first place I landed after two weeks /

was Xamoschi, /

a small town in the southeast part of Japan. //

We traveled north to the capital /

called Yedo /

because I wanted to go to Nangasac safely. //

When I was introduced /

to the Emperor of Japan, /

I asked /

if he would do me a favor. //

I wanted to go to Nangasac /

in safety, /

so I asked him to excuse me /

from a special ceremony /

of stepping on a picture of Jesus or Mary, /

called fumie. //

This was done to find Catholics /

because the Emperor didn’t like their religion. //

Thanks to the personal letter /

that I brought from Luggnagg, /

I could pass through /

without doing that ceremony. //

On June 9, /

1709, /

I arrived at Nangasac /

and left for my country. //