Death...is not something to fear...
...or to hate.
Your meals!
Yoshida Shoin was arrested during the Ansei Purge,
and jailed at Denmacho Prison in Edo.
But the storm spurred by the treaty signing did not cease.
There's no need to run.
This is Yokohama?
When we saw the Black Ships, it was a remote fishing village.
Foreigners are quick to make a profit.
In just a month, look how prosperous it is now.
He's a wholesaler.
This is like a foreign land!
Sir Katsu, I'll be buying some souvenirs
and rushing back to Kakuma with news on Torajiro.
Hello.
This is nice. How much?
What are you doing?
Summer of 1959...while the Ansei Purge continued,
There were successive attacks on the foreigners.
This is bad...He's dead.
Shoin continued to write fervently and passionately
to his comrades from prison.
Yae's Sakura
Episode 5: Shoin's Will
Screenplay: Yamamoto Mutsumi
Theme Music: Sakamoto Ryuichi Music: Nakajima Nobuyuki
Narrator: Kusabue Mitsuko
Yamamoto Yae: Ayase Haruka
Yamamoto Kakuma: Nishijima Hidetoshi
Kawasaki Shonosuke: Hasegawa Hiroki
Yamamoto Saku: Fubuki Jun
Yamamoto Gonpachi: Matsushige Yutaka
Yamamoto Ura: Hasegawa Kyoko
Yamakawa Yoshichiro: Tamayama Tetsuji
Takagi Tokio: Kanjiya Shihori
Matsudaira Katamori: Ayano Go
Yoshida Torajiro: Oguri Shun
Kayano Gonbei: Yanagisawa Shingo
Jinbo Kuranosuke: Tsukayama Masane
Tanaka Tosa: Sato Bsaku
Katsu Rintaro: Namase Katsuhisa
Ii Naosuke: Enoki Takaaki
Sakuma Shozan: Okuda Eiji
Saigo Tanomo: Nishida Toshiyuki
Executive Producer: Naito Shinsuke
Translations by MTI
Director: Ichiki Masae
You are growing nicely.
Your colorings are great.
Oh...
So you talk to the beans and radishes.
Were you listening?
They are trying so hard to grow in this heat.
I can't help but talk to them.
They can't understand you.
I'm sure they're happy to hear praise.
They'll try their best to grow quickly.
You enjoy farm work, don't you?
The soil feels warm.
That may sound odd, coming from a samurai's family.
Not at all.
Thank you for nurturing our delicious food.
Ura, look how long the beans' vine stems are.
They need to grow a bit more.
Are those AZUKI beans? (Red bean)
I was going to make red bean rice.
Is there a celebration?
The truth is...
Ura is pregnant.
Pregnant?
Kakuma doesn't know yet.
I'm going to be a grandmother.
It's her first child...
so we should take precautions.
Yes!
Welcome back!
Shonosuke, welcome back!
I've just returned.
How pretty!
It's beautiful.
It's a western umbrella.
It's made of iron. How extravagant.
It's clear.
Yokohama was full of American shops.
No one spoke Dutch.
But many Edo merchants were there buying foreign goods.
What prosperity for a remote village.
Do that the other side.
Yes.
Shonosuke is back safely.
Ura, this is a good day.
How is Torajiro?
They started the interrogation.
For what reason?
It's for...
plotting the attack on Elder Manabe Akikatsu.
Attack on the Elder?
He's helping Chief Minister Ii with the suppression.
Torajiro wouldn't do that. It must be a mistake.
Oddly, he came forward.
What?
You secretly met anti-alienist leader Umeda Unpin in Choshu.
What did you plot there?
We met for educational purposes.
No, you joined the anti-alienist and criticize the Shogunate.
I have nothing to do with them.
So you claim innocence?
No..I have sinned.
I was devising another plot.
What is the other plot?
To attack Elder Manabe and protest against the suppression.
Attack the Elder?
Submission to threats and opening our ports...
is the same as defeat.
Punishing those who fear for our country
will only alienate the people's hearts!
You plotted to kill the Elder?
If he did not change after repeated remonstrations...
I would have staked my life to...
Wait! I am not done yet!
Is that true?
Torajiro wouldn't do that!
He sees the world better than anyone.
Ever since the signing of the treaty...
his anti-alienism intensified.
He urged his students to follow him.
Excuse me!
Someone is here.
What will happen to him?
He'll probably be expelled or exiled to an island.
Is the instructor in?
I'd like to learn Dutch studies from him.
He's here to see me.
Are you here to see me?
Are you Yamamoto Kakuma?
If you want to learn, apply at the Nisshinkan school.
Jo-i ! [call word by the anti-alienist samurai]
Traitor to the country! Die!
Please stop!
Ura!
Stay there.
Kakuma!
Stop!
Shonosuke!
Stop!
Ura!
Ura, what's wrong?
Ura...Ura!
Yae, get a doctor!
Yes!
I went as far as the shrine, but I couldn't find them.
I see.
I was careless.
They were like mad dogs!
What is anti-alienism to them?
To kill me?
To kill that foreign sailor?
They incite insanity, attack the Elder, and kill people!
I'll find and kill them!
Kakuma!
Father!
They must have ran away.
I feel bad for Ura.
Can I come in?
How's Kakuma?
He's fine.
Mother...
I'm very sorry.
I lost our precious baby.
Just lie down.
I have to apologize to my husband.
Thank you...
for saving Kakuma's life.
Thank you.
I am really sorry.
Young Missus.
Good morning.
Should you be up?
I feel much better.
I'll get the vegetable for the soup.
Please keep growing.
Who are you talking to?
Never mind!
Ura, are you all right?
Yes.
What is this?
The bean vine stems grew, so I put a bamboo stick up.
You did?
Yes.
I helped, too.
You seemed concerned about it, so...
Was that uncalled for?
The beans are happy.
Now they can keep growing.
Ura... are you in pain?
Shoin received judgment on October 27, 1859.
Yoshida Shoin, also known as Torajiro...
you have no fear towards the Shogunate.
Despite being in confinement, you plotted with Umeda Unpin.
What did you just said?
You are hereby sentenced to death
I was not a part of Umeda Unpin's group!
That is a false charge!
Settle down!
Prepare to die!
The sentence was carried-out that same day.
They didn't have to kill him!
They went too far!
He was too young to die.
Why did you act hastily Torajiro?
News of Shoin's execution reached Aizu shortly after.
He can't come to terms with these.
He's struggling with the pain over Torajiro's death...
his anger towards anti-alienists...
and Ura's miscarriage.
Sir Yoshida was a dear friend to Kakuma.
I only met him once.
He had clear, kind eyes.
Is he like those men who attacked Kakuma?
He didn't hurt or kill anyone.
Did he have to die?
Yae...
It must be hard on Kakuma.
His dear friend died, yet he can't grieve for him.
In January 1860, a group headed to Washington, D.C.
for the ratification of the treaty.
Kaishu accompanied the Japanese group, aboard the Kanrin Maru.
It's an 8,906 km voyage across the Pacific.
Torajiro, I'm going to see America.
Sir Kakuma.
It's from Sir Katsu.
I've been ordered to go to America.
I don't have much time before I depart,
so I wanted to inform you about Shoin right away.
"Even if my body should rot in the field of Musashi...
...my Japanese spirit will not."
What is that?
It's Torajiro's death poem.
I am relaying his last words to you.
He received his death sentence the day after he finished his will.
In the last interrogation...
they switched a very trivial matter to punish him.
He resisted furiously.
That is a false charge!
Settle down!
Prepare to die!
If I die alone in this...
those who remain will stand to protect the country.
Settle down!
We don't need the Court, the Shogunate, or the clans!
Just rise alone!
Rise!
There is nothing that can't be moved when faced with sincerity!
Then he shouted...
there is nothing that sincerity cannot move.
Then he slowly bowed.
He came to terms with everything and died.
Kakuma?
He was too honest...
when he appealed in court.
The Shogunate is wrong...
and things must change.
That's what he staked his life for.
That was his utmost sincerity.
Even if he was reckless...
or foolish...
what more...
could one person...
possibly do.
Kakuma.
There is nothing sincerity...
...cannot overcome.
You're from Aizu!
Aizu sake is delicious.
The harsh winter had finally ended.
Shonosuke! Tokio! Hurry!
Aren't they from Komatsu Village?
Yes, they are.
Shall we watch a bit longer?
Yes.
Oh.
Oh. It's Yoshichiro.
Oh, Yae!
It's Sir Okura now.
His father died, so he's the head of the family.
He's a top student at the Nisshinkan.
He's skilled, too.
Aizu has high hope for him.
We competed in tree climbing and kite-flying and I never lost.
They are here!
They are coming from that side too.
Move! This is our place to dance!
You move!
Looks like trouble.
Is it safe here?
Fights are part of the Higan week. Right?
Fights can sometimes be diversions.
Watch out!
Everyone...settle down!
Settle down!
Can't you see the child?
Look there's a child!
That's my Haru-bo.
You followed me?
What's wrong?
Are you hurt?
He's not hurt.
I'm glad...thank you.
Thank you!
Okay... let's start over!
Dance on opposite sides!
Thank you.
Don't mention it.
It's just like you to move so swiftly. I was impressed.
It's Sir Okura... not Yoshichiro anymore.
[Sakurada Gate - Edo]
Then, on March 3, 1860...
there was a late heavy snowfall in Edo.
I have an appeal!
Please hear me out!
Appeals are not allowed! Refrain!
He's inside!
Get out!
Fools!
Chief Minister Ii was attacked and beheaded
by 18 Mito clan deserters.
Lord Ii, prepare to die!
News of the assassination...
reached Lord Katamori in Aizu.
Lord! You received an urgent letter!
Lord Kamon...
Lord...?
His Excellency has summoned me.
I'm leaving for Edo right away. Make the preparations.
Yes, sir!
"One must be prepared to risk one's life for country affairs."
The powerful and hereditary Tokugawa vassals
were gathered at Edo Castle to discuss the Mito clan's punishment.
His Excellency wants the Owari and Kishu clans
to punish the Mito clan.
We'd like to hear your thoughts on this emergency.
If this is the decision, then we will abide.
Will you excuse yourselves?
Yes, sir.
TSURUGA CASTLE - ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE
Kakuma, come closer.
Yes, sir.
Aizu is to mediate between the Shogunate and the Mito clan,
and focus on maintaining peace.
You want me to bring this up at the council?
I know it's not my place, but after hearing what happened,
I had no choice.
We just opened our doors to the foreign nations.
A domestic strife will make us vulnerable to the foreigners.
Both sides must work things out.
Kakuma... know your place.
Yes, sir.
A lowly vassal dares to state his opinion to the Lord?
I'm sorry!
I'll hold on to this.
Yes.
I agree with Yamamoto Kakuma.
According to what we've been informed from Edo...
the Mito clan will most likely be punished.
Will there be fighting, after all?
Let us stay out of this.
One wrong move could put us in danger.
Here.
Kakuma?
Is something wrong?
Isn't that Sir Yoshida's?
It shouldn't be like this.
Torajiro wasn't trying to split the country in two!
With the Owari and Kishu's military forces...
it should be settled quickly.
Shall we proceed with the attack on the Mito clan then?
Please wait.
What is it?
I don't think we should punish the Mito clan.
The Chief Minister was killed by Mito deserters.
If you punish the Mito clan based on that...
it will not be proper.
Domestic strifes should be avoided at this moment.
Lord Katamori's statement immediately changed...
the decision to punish the Mito clan.
But this would later throw the Aizu clan in the midst of chaos.
It was a statement that would shape their destiny.
Who wants a woman who shoots fire-arms?
The parents have to decide and proceed talks for her.
What is a Kyoto Deputy?
If I'm in faraway Kyoto, the military reform here will stagnate.
There isn't anyone more fit for the task.
Please decline!
Aizu is determined to follow the Tokugawa family!