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Episode 16
Shouldn't you be in bed?
Oshin cared for Shunsaku while fever plagued him.
Oshin's devotion opened up his heart to her.
He began teaching Oshin how to write.
She was happy with the expectation
that she would be able to read books.
But she was more happy that he was willing to teach her.
Very good!
Next let's see you write the letters for na ni nu ne and no.
"Na" starts out words for name (namae) and rape blossoms (nanohana).
"Na" also starts words for eggplant (nasubi)
greens (nappa) and pots (nabe).
And nakimushi! (a crybaby)
We couldn't possibly get up to where that cabin was.
I'm not planning to go up there! I never really knew its location.
But you came down from there right?
You could see Mount Gassan from there?
It must be around here somewhere.
It doesn't matter.
What's important are the memories.
Those were perhaps the happiest days of my life.
A primitive life like that?
I had nothing to write with...
I'd use bits of charcoal on a piece of bark.
I'd wipe with a rag and it'd all get black!
That's why you get upset when we waste pencils and pens.
You'd scold me
and all the employees thought you were tight.
I'm used to people criticizing me.
I was so happy just being able to write words.
I had no idea that people at home were so worried about me.
Shunsaku taught me so many things.
That we could be happy having very little.
And what it meant... to live life fully.
What do these words mean?
Oshin!
Come and take a look. You can see Mount Gassan!
I can read this book now.
Sorry.
I read your book without permission.
But I just wanted to read what you enjoyed reading.
I tried to read the pages you had marked with a leaf.
I'm sorry. I'll never do it again.
You're too young to understand that book.
The characters had phonetic readings next to them.
But the words were so alien to me.
This is a book of "shi" poetry.
"Shi" as in death?
No not that.
They're like songs.
The poetry songs you like?
Yes.
I want to hear you recite these poems!
Please.
All right. I'll read you one.
My younger brother I love you so.
Yet they have placed a weapon in your hands to kill.
At age 24 they told you to kill and then to die.
You are to run our family business in Sakai.
So do not go and die.
It matters not if Port Arthur falls or not.
It's not our family tradition that young men die in war.
Brother do not die.
Our Emperor does not wish to go to fight.
Do not shed blood. Do not become a beast.
Our Emperor does not wish his sons to die.
Shunsaku...
Do not make your young wife weep if you still remember her and love her.
You are my brother and I wish you to live.
Do not die.
I'm impressed! You can read such hard words.
This poem is...
That's enough!
Oshin will one day have to face war.
Japan can't go on in its present course!
If we keep seeking resources abroad there will be war.
That's too hard for a child like her to understand.
I'm not trying to teach her.
I just want her to remember what I said.
This poem is by Yosano Akiko for her brother at the front.
She tells him not to kill or be killed.
War is a folly that man cannot afford.
She didn't raise her younger brother to go and kill.
He has a young wife waiting for him. Her brother is precious to her.
She cannot allow him to go and die.
It doesn't matter who wins or loses the war!
She just wants him to come home safely.
That's what this poem means.
Can you understand?
She's just a kid. How could she understand?
Oshin couldn't care less about war right?
Didn't you go to war too?
You're still carrying that bullet inside you.
That's why you got sick.
Matsu-ji?
You have big scars! So many of them.
I couldn't help but tell her about your wounds.
But don't ever tell everyone else about it!
Why not?
To be wounded in a war is a big honor!
A man from my village lost his leg in a war.
But he's very proud about it!
It's no honor...
In a war the side that kills the most wins!
Do you think it's so great to kill or be killed?
If you had a fight with someone and killed him.
I'd never do such a thing!
See!
Even in a fight one can't kill or injure someone.
Isn't that so?
If I did that the policeman would take me away!
That's right and you'd be punished.
But in a war the armies do that.
Nobody's punished for killing. They're applauded for their killing!
That's how wars are won...
You think winning like that is an honor?
Matsu-ji's sons both died honorable deaths.
But his grief is beyond tears.
You still think wars are honorable?
For those killed or wounded in a war
there are family members shedding tears and suffering grief.
You think wars are just?
Remember this well... One should not fight wars!
Even if Japan goes to war you should resist!
One person is powerless
but if everyone gets together on an idea
they can change national policy!
Individual ideas and are very important.
I'll let you have this book.
One day you'll know what it contains.
Then remember me.
I guess I'll go hunting.
The weather's clear. There'll be game out there!
You got the rabbit!
I guess you learned to shoot well in the war.
You shot people too?
How many did you kill?
Countless numbers...
That's why I quit being a soldier.
Father...
Father?
Father.
What is it?
Oshin's calling me...
She's calling out to me in the blizzard.
"Mother mother!"
I want to help her but I can't reach her...
It's just a bad dream... Don't bother about it!
She's dead... She can't rest in peace.
She's buried somewhere under the snow.
She's calling me!
Stop it!
We'd better hold a funeral for her or she'll never rest in peace!
I've given up on her...
She was such a good girl...
Why did she have to die?
My dear brother... Do not die.
We did not raise you to kill or be killed.
My dear brother... Do not die...
Thanks to Avallac'h and XrayMind at D-Addicts.
Translation: UTB Channel