Full assault!
Fire!
In September of 1877...
the Satsuma Rebellion which lasted seven months...
ended with Saigo Takamori's death.
There were over 10,000 casualties.
Peace returned to Japan for a short while.
Mr. Niijima and Yae's girls' school has opened.
There are many spirited young girls like Yae.
Dear...
Saburo...
Ten years have passed.
Are you reading the Bible again?
You're reading it avidly.
Mine is attending girls' school.
The Aizu people love to study.
Oh...is that Mine?
Aunty, I have bad news!
I wonder what's wrong?
Why the commotion?
They're arguing with Ms. Alice again.
Again?
Ms. Alice, stop it. It's dangerous.
Stop it!
We've heard enough.
We came here to study.
That's right.
What's happening?
YAE NO SAKURA
Episode 39: Our Children
Screenplay: Yamamoto Mutsumi
Theme Music: Sakamoto Ryuichi Music: Nakajima Nobuyuki
Narrator: Kusabue Mitsuko
Niijima Yae: Ayase Haruka
Yamamoto Kakuma: Nishijima Hidetoshi
Niijima Jo: Odagiri Joe
Yamakawa Hiroshi: Tamayama Tetsuji
Yamamoto Tokie: Tanimura Mitsuki
Makimura Masanao: Takashima Masahiro
Yamamoto Saku: Fubuki Jun
Ooyama Iwao: Sorimachi Takashi
Executive Producer: Naito Shinsuke
Translations by MTI
Director: Ichiki Masae
What's happening?
Teacher told us not to air out the beddings.
Ladies shouldn't let others see their beddings.
But they'll be unsanitary.
Not you, too.
We didn't come to Kyoto to learn to be lady-like.
We're here to study hard like the men.
Girls' school only teaches manners. It's sickening.
I agree!
I want to study too.
That is why I am here.
Well said!
I understand!
I will teach the class on manners today.
What?
What is going on?
Martial arts is the best way to learn manners.
This practice is not for women.
This is a naginata (halberd).
Halberd...?
Get ready quickly.
Ms. Yae, excellent.
Ms. Alice, this is how you dodge it.
Ready.
Here I come.
I'm relieved.
We have different customs.
We need to open up first.
Where's Ritsu?
Ritsu, how are you feeling?
Don't come in.
KOMATSU RITSU
If you have a cold, you need to rest.
I won't accept kindness from an Aizu person.
This school is run by my enemy.
Had I known that, I would have never come here.
One's birthplace has nothing to do with learning.
My father died in Aizu.
In the Boshin War.
Your wife started swinging a spear.
It's preposterous!
How barbaric!
Now, now, calm down.
They are taught strict manners in martial arts.
I will decide what to teach the students.
I am the principal.
You can't even obtain the land for the school.
Though the girls' school was established...
unable to obtain land, they were still in a temporary residence.
As such, school operations were not smooth.
Jo's position as principal was still vulnerable.
Maybe I'll learn the halberd, too.
Then I might not lose to Alice's spirit.
There's a student named Komatsu Ritsu.
Oh..isn't she from Satsuma?
Her father died in Aizu during the Boshin War.
I might have...
killed her father.
Yae.
Ritsu wants to quit school.
Women must study as well, so wars can be avoided.
We must not have another conflict like the Satsuma Rebellion.
That's how I felt, but...
Is there anything I can do?
We'll be getting students from Satsuma and Choshu.
Being that I'm from Aizu...
I'll be a hindrance to your school.
That's not true.
I believe that there is something that only you can relay.
Jo...
I won't allow anyone to quit.
Without your efforts, we wouldn't have been victorious.
Thanks for your hard work.
Good work.
Former Aizu Councilor Yamakawa Okura...
Congratulations.
Continued to work hard.
Your felony as a rebel can't be easily atoned.
Dismissed.
Yamakawa.
You lived up to your name at Kumamoto.
Just as you'd expect of the wise Yamakawa.
Demon Sagawa...
Sagawa Kanbei fought very bravely, too.
It was reassuring.
For your information...
We fought as retaliation against the Satsuma.
We wanted to crush Saigo for destroying the Aizu...
and avenge our dead comrades.
We were falsely accused.
The pain of losing one's family to war...
Do you understand it?
We are repeating our mistakes.
What is this country doing?
The wars are over.
It's over...Yamakawa.
Principal...I'm sorry.
I heard you want to learn Christianity.
Get well quickly and attend classes.
That is...
KYOTO PREFECTURE OFFICE
It's Mr. Makimura.
Please explain.
You told a landlord...
not to sell his land to Niijima.
He builds schools with foreign capital funds.
I'm wondering what his true motive is.
Niijima is devoting himself to his country.
Then what about you?
The townsfolk are saying...
Mr. Yamamoto is overly indulged with Doshida...
and is neglecting his duties.
I didn't think I was.
Just follow the Governor's orders.
Isn't it about time...
you focused all your energies on Doshida?
Mr. Makimura seems like a different man.
After being promoted to Governor last year...
he must want control.
Sooner or later, I will be dismissed.
You've done so much for Kyoto.
It makes me mad.
Come this way.
A while after the girls' school was opened...
Jo and Yae's house with a church was completed.
Yae.
Even the kitchen has wooden floor.
There's a well inside the house.
The sink is adjusted to Yae's height.
It makes it easier for Yae.
Aunty, you are fortunate.
Will you give me a hand?
The students are invited over for dinner.
Those spirited boys from Kumamoto?
And their sisters who are in the girls' school.
I invited Ritsu as well.
I heard she was better.
Someone's at the door. Will you go answer it?
Oh, sure.
Mine, pass the salt.
Oh, you came.
Principal, I'd like to talk to you.
Come in.
I'm sorry.
You play well.
I'm sorry to play it without permission.
It reminded me of the church in Tokyo.
Were you in Tokyo?
Yes. I was attending Kaisei Academy.
I wanted to study Christianity so I joined my comrades here.
Brother!
Brother?
I'm her older brother, Ise Tokio.
Hey, Ise!
You're here!
We've been waiting!
We're having a party! Come and join in!
This way.
Not bad for a sphinx's cooking.
Stop being mean.
You happily eat what the women cook.
So why do you look down on women?
I only speak the truth.
It's a fusion of Japanese and Western style cooking.
It may be tasty.
Your comments aren't bad.
Everyone, take your seat.
I can't study under an Aizu person.
You won't change your mind?
I'm sorry.
Then...just for today...
please have dinner with us.
For me to save face.
Please.
Let us go.
NOTICE OF RESIGNATION
Sorry to keep you waiting.
Ritsu...
What a feast.
Let's carve it.
Ritsu, please sit here.
This is my first!
Looks delicious!
Christ sacrificed himself to atone for man's sins.
By man, is it the Jews? Or is it all mankind?
I think it's all mankind.
In that case, there is more to debate.
I'm telling Ms. Alice that I'm leaving the dorm.
She must allow us to take English classes, too.
Ritsu, how did you like it?
There's no end to their debate.
They needn't act against the principal's kind gesture.
They're going overboard.
Or is it over your head?
What?
Now, now.
Debates allow both sides to think more deeply.
That's important.
Sis, you should learn how to cook from Ms. Yae.
I am here to study.
I can't lose to you.
Men and women have their respective roles.
That may not apply to Ms. Yae.
She fought among the men with her rifle.
Did you...
...fight in that battle?
I heard my father was shot by a female shooter.
I didn't think it was you.
That was me.
Please forgive me.
Ritsu!
Yae! Call a doctor at once!
She has Tuberculosis.
Send her home at once to rest.
Her home is in Satsuma.
She might not be able to survive that long trip.
We will take her in.
It's contagious.
You'll be risking your lives.
I know that.
I'll take care of her.
Ritsu, please eat a little.
I should have told you that I fought in that battle...
when I heard your father died in Aizu.
Please forgive me.
Have some.
Ritsu, good morning.
You need to eat to get strong.
Enough is enough!
What good does this do?
No one will be saved by your stubbornness!
You can't avenge your father in that condition.
Do you hate me?
Then get well and then retaliate against me.
If you die from your foolish attitude...
you've achieved nothing.
You must live!
Yae...
Yae lost her father and brother in that war.
Even after losing her home and loved ones,
she hung in there.
Yae's been through it, also.
She has suffered like you.
Why is Ms. Yae nursing me?
That's only natural.
You are our child.
I'll eat.
Mother, you look tired.
I'm worried about the girl with Tuberculosis.
Both Ms. Yae and Mr. Jo must be exhausted.
I should give them the good news right away.
What good news?
I was able to obtain land for the girls' school.
It's a good location.
East side of the English school (for men).
Didn't Mr. Makimura try to interfere?
In return, I resigned my post as advisor.
What?
Are you all right with that?
Akashi and others can do the prefectural work.
But the Doshisha needs my help.
Tokie. Hisae. I'll have time to spend with you.
Oh, my.
Father, are you going to play with me?
Yes. I'll play a lot with you.
Yae! I'll read you books.
Oh, really?
Are you all right?
Isn't that the Aizu dialect?
Were you taught the Aizu are cowardly rebels?
I hate the Satsuma.
I can't forgive them.
That's how I felt for a long time, but...
I don't hate you at all.
There may have been cowards in Aizu and Satsuma.
But most of them were ordinary people like you...
like the children of Aizu.
Ms. Yae...
You are one of those ordinary people.
No...
I am not...
...because I actively fought in the war.
I...
...shot people.
I fought for Aizu and to avenge my brother's death.
I had no hesitations.
But...
when I met you...
I realized what I really did.
Why did my father die?
Why was my younger brother, Saburo, killed?
I felt lost thinking that, but...
I carry...
the same sin.
This sin...
will always stay with me.
Is there...
anyone who hasn't sinned?
Ms. Yae...
thank you for nursing to save me.
I appreciate it.
Ritsu.
Get well soon and return to school.
I don't want to lose you.
Yes.
I'll definitely be back in school.
I see...so she went home to Satsuma.
She's going to rest for a while.
She left, huh?
Are you lonely?
Not really.
You can't see her again. That's just fate.
I think she'll be back.
It's not easy to accept your sin like that.
Ms. Yae is indeed an amazing woman.
Be it good or bad...
Ms. Yae is a monster.
Who's a monster?
Service is about to start.
Enough eating for now!
Shall we start then?
Please come in.
Excuse me.
Mother...Mine... What made you come?
I have a request to make of you.
Please baptize us.
Why?
I've been thinking about what I can do.
I can't do much like Kakuma, but...
I can become a member of your church and be with you.
Mother...
I want to learn more about Christianity.
Thank you...both of you.
After Saku and Mine were baptized,
they started working at the Doshisha girls' school.
Were you listening? How embarrassing.
I want to make Doshisha more than a simple school.
It's a place where we live with the students as a family.
Thanks to you, I am a step closer to my dream.
Thank you.
END OF EPISODE 39
We asked Jo's parents to come.
I don't understand what he's thinking.
He just took off to the United States.
How troublesome.
This is the council that allows us to be heard.
The students have holed up in the dorm.
We are boycotting classes.
Jo isn't fit to be principal.
Jo is a strong person.
Let us live as we believe.