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Episode 38
Otama... You'd better get to bed.
Otama you're 14 right?
When I was 14 I could already sew.
Make good use of this opportunity to learn.
I will do that.
You came here after the fourth grade in school.
I came here without any formal education to babysit.
You all commute now but I was trained by
Okiku and Oume who were both live-in maids.
They taught me to sew too.
They both got married and left. Now it's my turn to train you.
Are you really going to get married?
Look at that man!
Does Oshin really intend to marry him?
Miss Okayo.
Come on in.
I've brought you tea and sweets.
You're so considerate. I'd been wanting some tea.
You're going off to paint again?
I can't seem to get it the way I want.
You should stop making your mother worry.
Are you lecturing me?
You've changed since going to that girls' school in Yamagata.
One has to learn about the world around them.
That song you were singing is it new?
It's the "Song of the Gondola." It's from a stage play I saw.
Like that song they sing in the Resurrection?
Yes that was last year.
This year it's the "Song of the Gondola."
You sure keep up with the times!
- Oshin. - Yes?
I saw that man you're set to marry.
What's so good about him?
I hope you're not really going to marry him.
There's no need to marry him if you don't want to.
I'm honored to be made the offer.
I'm the daughter of a sharecropper.
If I go home I'd have to marry a sharecropper too.
But because I came here
I have a chance for a good marriage.
I should be grateful.
I sent you that women's rights magazine the Bluestocking.
Did you read it?
Thank you but I've been busy. Besides it's hard reading for me.
Don't sound so pathetic. You used to love to read before.
What's happened to you?
You and I are of different circumstances.
The White Birch is a literary journal put out by
Mushanokoji Saneatsu and Arishima Takeo.
They espouse new ideas!
I see.
The Bluestocking is put out by Hiratsuka Raicho.
It's a magazine made strictly for women!
It says that women were once the center of the universe.
They were the sun!
But now we're the sickly pale moon.
We must become the sun again. Do you understand?
We have to break the bonds that keep women down.
We must live our own lives!
In a play I saw
the character casts off home and fortune to find true happiness.
Women must realize.
We don't want to be dependent on men anymore!
This Bluestocking what does it mean?
It's "Seito" in Japanese and it's the kind of long
blue stockings Western women wear think of it as socks.
The women's rights people in England all wore blue stockings.
That's why they call it by that name?
Rich people sure have a way about them!
I want you to live like the sun.
If you get married now what will become of you?
You'll just be another sickly pale moon!
But I don't understand things like that.
I don't know about being the sun or the moon.
But I do value myself!
That's why I never want to be poor again.
And that's why I don't mind marrying Sakuragi.
I want to do it for myself.
I always thought you were smarter than that.
I'd study hard so that I wouldn't lose to you.
But you always managed to do better than me.
We are different and we live different lives.
So you're getting married?
I'll have to give an answer soon.
I wish you'd go back to school.
I'm not going back there.
I've packed up all my things at the dormitory already.
You're quitting school?
It's not doing me much good.
I want to do some good paintings and take them with me to Tokyo.
What will happen to Kaga-ya?
One has to get out from within one's shell
in order to bring out your own talent.
I'm going to paint the Sea of Japan!
Miss Okayo...
We made a mistake in sending Kayo off to the girls' school.
I was always against it! Education or not
it's not a good idea to send a young girl to live away from home.
It's too late for that now.
Nowadays a woman needs a good education.
Kayo's going to be taking over our business.
It's best if we train her for marriage
and have her learn how to run the business.
We'll have to find a college-educated
man to be her adoptive husband too.
A man doesn't need an education. All he has to do is work hard.
If Kayo wants to quit school let her.
I'll train her. It's not too late.
Just find a man for her right away.
Once she's married and has a child she'll quit talking nonsense.
That's how women are!
Bring Kayo in here.
Yes I'll get her.
I'm glad we caught it in time.
She wants to paint? That's being childish.
What if she'd found a boy she liked in Yamagata?
Then it would've been too late.
I trust Kayo!
Trust or not one can't control matters of the heart.
Sorry to bother you. Do you know where she is?
I'm sure she's at the sand dunes.
Please go tell her to come right home.
Drag her here if you have to.
Okay.
Just keep walking.
I'm being followed. Don't worry.
If they think I'm meeting a woman I can fool them.
Oshin? Is that you Oshin?
Miss Okayo!
Don't cry out.
I didn't know you had a lover!
I don't know this man.
I was sent here to get you. Then this man grabbed me.
Sorry to scare you. I had to think of something.
Thank you for your help.
Are you wanted?
Did you paint this?
It's nice.
It shows the rustic loneliness of the Sea of Japan.
Oil painting is a new technique.
Maybe you should try to express more of the rusticness.
The man had come out of nowhere to enter Oshin and Kayo's lives.
But this chance meeting was to change their lives forever.
Thanks to Avallac'h and XrayMind at D-Addicts.
Translation: UTB Channel