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Episode 37
So this is the Sea of Japan?
The water is different from what I'm used to in Ise.
How long were you in Sakata?
Until I was 16.
You were at Kaga-ya the whole time?
Okayo loved the sea too.
She would come here to do her sketches.
She became an artist?
What do you want to be?
I don't want to work for Tanokura Supermarket
but I don't mind being a businessman like uncle Hitoshi.
You're not like Nozomi at all.
I've never wanted to take over after my father.
I'm not interested in pottery
and I've seen my father having such a hard time of it.
Or maybe because I'm not artistically inclined?
Am I really my father's son?
Father has a gift for pottery.
Don't be silly. You're his son!
Whom do I take after? If only I were your true grandson.
You're a real genius. A real businesswoman.
It's not that I ever wanted to be in business.
And that's not why I began the supermarket.
It's just that I was so poor in my youth.
I just did my best to survive. I had no time for likes or dislikes.
I didn't have the luxury of choosing my own way of life.
Is it a luxury to be able to choose one's own way of life?
Of course! You got to pick out your own college
and you get to choose the job you want.
Really?
I still don't even know what I want to do
or what I want to become.
If I'd been able to choose
maybe I'd have lived my life totally different.
But I always had to send money home.
I couldn't quit my job at Kaya-ya.
I'd wanted to learn about business.
And I'd believed that being a merchant
was the way to get some real money.
A woman was thinking such thoughts?
When my grandmother died I'd decided never to be poor again.
That's why I worked at Kaga-ya until I was 16.
The old madam there taught me so much.
If that incident hadn't occurred maybe I could've married a merchant
and my life might have been easier.
But everyone's life is predestined.
Oshin!
Oshin's at the store. The old madam called for her.
Again?
We have a manager to run our store.
She's always counting on Oshin to help out.
Oshin has her hands full with household matters!
She trusts Oshin because she trained her herself.
I'm sure Oshin is having a hard time of it.
Oshin's already told us what to do back here.
I'd better go see what they're up to.
In the spring of her ninth year Oshin had lost her grandmother.
Now still at Kaga-ya she was 16 years old.
In Taisho 3 (1914) World War I had begun.
Japan was in an economic boom as a result.
Now it was 1916.
- Mr. Sakuragi is here. - I'll be right there.
I'd better be checking on dinner.
Thank you for your help.
Thank you for doing all the work.
The head and the gills are to be cooked in sauce.
I'll make the broiled fish.
Okay.
How are you coming with the potatoes?
The old madam wants you to take tea into the guest.
I'll finish making dinner for you.
I can't have you working in the kitchen!
It's good for me to work in here once in a while.
I no longer have a small baby to mind.
Besides you do a lot of work at our store too.
So the least I can do is to help out here.
But...
Hurry with the tea or she'll be yelling!
I'll take it in right away.
- Oshin. - Yes?
Have you seen Kayo?
I was at the store so I didn't see her.
Isn't she here?
Where could she be?
I don't know much about the tea ceremony but that was quite good!
You've trained her so well.
Please enjoy and never mind the ceremony.
You take care of Oshin like she was your daughter.
She's always been such a bright girl so I've tried to look after her.
She writes so well and she's good with the abacus too.
Really?
She keeps the books better than the store manager.
I'm hoping she grows up to be good in business.
Oshin takes care of all the household duties too.
She cooks well and she can sew a kimono in two days.
I'm done with my ceremony.
I'll take over.
Has the old madam told you?
I was hoping you could stay with us
and continue being a good friend to Kayo.
What's she thinking about?
- Welcome home! - Welcome home!
Kayo!
Kayo.
Kayo!
You were out all day!
Your vacation is over.
When will you return to school?
I'm not going back. I intend to quit.
Not that again!
You have to take over Kaga-ya's business one day!
We have to find a suitable adopted son-in-law!
Sayo can take over the family business.
Don't be silly! The eldest daughter takes over!
What law says that?
What difference does it make if it's me
or Sayo that takes over the business?
I want to be an artist and paint. I want to go to Tokyo to study.
You think we'll allow that?
Human beings are free to follow their calling.
What good is life without freedom?
Why do you always talk like that?
What's come over you?
What good is drawing pictures anyway?
Be more like Oshin!
She's already completed her bridal training.
Oshin is Oshin and I'm me!
Kayo!
Stop making so much noise. I can't study!
Okay.
Kayo Oshin's getting married!
There's a couple here looking Oshin over to be the bride for their son.
Look at them.
They're one of the newly rich! I'm sure he got rich off the rice market!
Kayo!
The Sakuragis?
Oshin's seen him too.
They seem to be doing very well.
But they want her for their second son.
Second sons get a good part of the family business too.
I'm sure they'll give their son a house of his own.
It's a perfect match for Oshin.
You're going to marry their son?
I've just heard of it.
You can't marry a man you don't even know!
Kayo!
Marriage can only work if there's love.
It's not a matter for others to decide.
You can't get married unless others set it up for you.
Arranged marriages are the best.
I don't want to have to send Oshin away
but the Sakuragis all live here in Sakata.
She won't be far away.
You can't push your will upon Oshin!
She's thinking of what is best for Oshin.
I haven't the right to oppose it but do consider what's best for you.
It was all so sudden
and Oshin hadn't had time to think things over.
But she couldn't help thinking of all the
things that had happened in her life up until now.
Thanks to Avallac'h and XrayMind at D-Addicts.
Translation: UTB Channel