The Reverend Jonathan Goble (1827–1897) was an American Free Baptist minister and missionary in Yokohama, Japan.
He returned as the first Baptist missionary to Japan in 1860.
[1] It is said that around 1869, he built the first rickshaw to transport his invalid wife Eliza Goble around the city.
Musical Theater: Jonathan Goble appears as a character (played by the narrator) in act two of the musical Pacific Overtures who explains how he came to invent his rickshaw while a series of local residents working as runners pulling his rickshaw die of exhaustion, each instantly replaced by a new runner.
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