Nagasaki-6 ; The first native speaker who taught English to Japanese interpreters

His name is Ranald MacDonald(1824-1894). I am confident in the spelling,'Ranald'. Don't worry!
Believe it or not; he dared to come to Japan in 1848 which was during the period of Japan's national isolationism(1639-1854) with his own will.  His father was a Scottish American and mother was a daughter of a local tribal chief. He believed that his tribe's ancestors were Japanese and had the temptation to go to Japan. 

Click the photo above and you will know the detailed story. Anyway, he became a crew of a whaleship and got off the ship off the coast of Japan and rowed a boat to a small island.In the end, he was sent to Nagasaki as an illegal intruder and detained in a dungeon for six months until he was sent back to the United States by an American ship. 
During his detention in Nagasaki, he taught English to Japanese interpreters. Among them there was a man named Einosuke Moriyama who later played an important role as a chief interpreter between Commodore  Perry and the Japanese government.

His monument was built at the site of the former dungeon.After Ranald MacDonald went back to the States, he reported his experience to the federal government that Japan was not a barbarian country. His report triggered America's policy to let Japan end the national isolationism and send Commodore Perry to Japan. Thus, Ranald contributed to finish Japan's national isolationism smoothly and cultivate a good relationship between Japan and the United States.