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Episode 4
Look at you now!
Thanks for letting me wear your boots and coat.
I don't know where you're going but please be careful.
Don't worry I'll be taking good care of her.
I'm prepared to carry her on my back.
I don't need to be carried I can still walk in the snow!
Be careful!
Where could they both be going?
- There's still a trail. - Yeah.
There are other villages up ahead
but they don't clear the roads so no cars can come up here.
Maybe we should give it up... There's so much snow!
What are you saying? You insisted on coming!
We can come back when the snow melts.
Come on I'll tie you on my back. That's why I bought this.
Don't worry Nobody's looking.
Come on.
There it is! I can the village!
I can see it!
So this is your old home...
Am I right?
This is the place...
Isn't it?
Do you feel better now?
I'm sorry to have drawn you into it.
But I couldn't have made it without you!
Thank you Kei.
Don't mention it
I'm glad I got to see your birthplace.
But why did you choose this time of year?
You wanted to see the village in the snow?
That's right.
For those of us who grew up in the mountains of Yamagata
snow brings back a lot of memories.
The winters were long and tough...
But you didn't have to
leave so abruptly on the day of your new store's grand opening!
That's just why I felt like coming here.
I'd been thinking about it for a long time.
I couldn't sleep the night before.
When morning came I just had to leave!
So you were against opening the new store?
It's not for any silly reason like that.
Then...
Well let's go home.
You just wanted to see your old village.
Everybody will understand.
There are many other places that I still want to visit.
- Grandma... - You can go home tomorrow.
Don't be like that!
I'll take another bath and turn in.
If you're not leaving I'm staying too!
- I'll follow you everywhere! - You have your classes to attend.
We're on spring break and I have money!
I can't go home without you. Otherwise I have no leg to stand on!
Kei...
I couldn't leave you all alone up here anyway!
It might turn into a long journey.
I don't mind.
But what's the purpose?
You had never complained before
but if you don't like it at the main house come live with us.
Kei...
I feel as if I've lived my life all wrong.
It's my fault that Hitoshi grew up like that.
Why?
You made Tanokura Supermarket what it is today.
Uncle Hitoshi too.
If he keeps running the business like that
the Tanokura Supermarket chain will eventually fail.
Grandma...
Maybe it can't be helped. It's my own fault.
I raised Hitoshi to be what he is.
I'd been working so desperately all these years.
I never looked back and just kept going!
But I'd gone wrong somewhere along the way.
I want to know where I went wrong.
I don't like to dwell on the past. What's past is behind us.
But I feel as though I've left much behind along the way.
I need to reclaim those things.
Otherwise Hitoshi and I will both fail.
I have a feeling...
That's why I took this trip...
To make myself remember those things...
You probably wouldn't understand. Maybe nobody can.
I don't really care if others understand.
People will think it's just an old woman reminiscing.
But...
I know how you feel.
I don't know what you've left behind
but I know that you want to reclaim them.
I think it takes living 83 years to feel like that.
I've never seen you act so willful before.
You were always so calm and collected.
You never revealed your emotions.
Now you go and run away from home
and you insisted on going up to that village.
I've never seen you act this way.
That's what made me want to help you.
I guess you didn't come here just for sentimental reasons.
You displayed a lot of passion there...
You made me understand how you felt.
That's... where I began my journey...
From that house I was looking at...
My old house used to be there.
It was a tiny thatched hut.
The icy draft came through the walls during the winter.
We only had an open hearth for heat.
But it was a warm and happy place for me.
We had a big family and we were close.
That made me feel all warm inside.
Father mother and grandma.
An older brother and two older sisters and a younger brother and sister.
With me it made nine.
I was seven that spring by the old count.
Today they would've said I was age six.
My older sisters were home from their jobs.
How old were they when they went off to work?
My oldest sister was 11 and the other one was nine.
- They were just kids! - That's right...
No way!
They worked as live-in help?
Today that'd be against the child labor laws!
It was the latter part of the Meiji era.
There weren't any child protective laws back then.
All poor families sent their kids out to work.
The ways they got were a pittance.
They got sent out to reduce mouths to feed.
Mouths to feed?
Back then most farmers were sharecroppers.
We got our land to farm from a big landlord.
Half the rice crop would be paid as rent.
The rest of the rice was to feed the family.
If the harvest was bad due to the weather
we wouldn't have enough to eat.
Even with a good harvest large families never had enough to eat.
If one or two kids went off to work
we'd have less mouths to feed.
That's a very cruel way of putting things.
We were called 5-tan farmers which means we had about 1225 acres.
We could get 25 bales of rice with a good harvest.
Rent would be 13 bales and the rest would be
to feed the family and bartered for subsistence items.
So it was tough!
Back then we had poor crops for two or three years in a row.
I'm sorry we only have daikon turnip gruel to feed you.
We don't mind we're both happy to be home and eating!
They don't feed you much at where you work?
It's the same everywhere.
I don't care if I get little to eat I want to stay home.
Mitsu.
Mitsu have another bowl!
Me too!
Give Oshin my share.
If only I could work...
Grandma it's not your fault. It's your hands.
Does it hurt?
It's rheumatism it keeps me from working.
You got that way from overwork.
You deserve to rest.
You too father.
I'll watch the baby mother. Go ahead and eat!
Don't you want more?
- She's had enough! - Mother!
I envy Oshin she doesn't know anything.
I'll be going to school in April.
Kiyo is going too.
Her family's already bought her a kimono.
Will you buy me one too?
Stop dreaming!
- We're... - Shoji!
Buy one for me!
Mother! Buy one for me!
I didn't know what it meant to be poor.
That's why...
Kei...
I'll call home I'm sure they're still up.
I'll tell them we'll be gone for a while.
I won't tell them anything more.
I want to stay with you.
Translation: UTB Channel
Thanks to Avallac'h and XrayMind at D-Addicts.