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Episode 52
Good morning.
Nice flowers again!
They're blooming along the river now.
Flowers can be pricey.
It is autumn.
- Osode. - Yes?
Please take this to the owner.
You're done already?
I hope she likes the kimono.
You stayed up all night again?
She needed it in a hurry.
You'd better take it in to her yourself.
Yes but you have the job of serving the owner directly.
And I've been keeping track of what I've been spending on dinner.
The merchants will come to collect at the end of the month
so there's no mistake on what I charged.
You keep books on it?
She finished it in three days!
And this...
Oshin knows how to write!
Osode...
This is tea for our owner.
- Oshin. - Yes?
Come on in.
Okay.
Thanks for all that you've done.
How much schooling do you have?
I've been working since age seven.
Then where did you learn to sew and how to write?
While I was at a rice dealer's shop in Sakata the madam there taught me.
How long were you there?
Until I came here.
Why did you leave? I'm not scolding you.
You sew and write very well.
And you know how to arrange flowers too.
You can find work other than fixing hair.
It's too late for me to learn to do hair?
No I'm just curious why a girl like you
decided to come here to learn hairdressing.
- My late sister said... - I I know but...
I really do want to be a hairdresser.
You'll really stick it out?
Yes.
I'm sure you have your reasons. I won't pry.
As long as you're willing to learn.
No matter how long it takes I want to learn hairdressing as a skill.
I don't want to have to rely on a man to make a living.
You have good hands.
I can tell by the stitches.
That's why I had you sew this it was a test.
You've worked hard for the past month.
You can stay if you like.
But it's all up to you whether you make it or not.
It's for you to learn not for me to teach.
Do you understand?
Yes.
Thank you very much!
That night Oshin wrote her first letter
from Tokyo to her mother back home.
Ofuji.
Are you here all alone?
Yes my husband and Shoji are both out working.
I came home to make dinner.
You have a letter from Oshin.
From Oshin?
She addressed it to me.
There was no return address so I didn't know who it was from.
Thanks.
She didn't want her father to know where she is now.
Sakuzo doesn't know?
No if he knew there'd be big trouble.
She would be brought back and sold!
Please don't mention this to anybody.
Of course not!
She doesn't have to write to me... I can't read.
I always think no news is good news.
That's why she sent the letter to me I can read.
Thank you.
Mother I'm sorry I hadn't written before.
I arrived safely in Tokyo...
I wasn't sure if I'd be allowed to learn hairdressing.
But I've been formally given permission to learn.
I can now be a hairdresser if I really try hard.
It'll take many years but I'll do my best for Haru.
I don't know when I'll start earning money for my work
but I'll send you some as soon as I can.
I want you to stay well and live a long time.
I look forward to us living together again.
Please take care of yourself.
Oshin sure is filial.
I'll bet father beat you for not divulging where I'd gone.
Thanks to you I was able to come to Tokyo.
Winter will be upon us soon.
I'm remembering what you look like and what
the hills and streams look like back home as I write this letter.
I look forward to seeing you again.
Again please take good care of yourself.
Oshin...
Dear mother I'll write again soon. - Oshin
She refers to me as dear mother?
So she's going to be a hairdresser.
Had she stayed in Sakata she could've had a good life
and she could have gotten married too.
What made her want to start over in Tokyo?
They always ask me about her in Sakata.
They were all so good to her.
She ended up disappointing them all but Oshin knows what she's doing.
Miss Okayo's gone to Tokyo too.
The Kaga-ya people must miss them both.
Miss Okayo's not back home yet?
They never heard from her.
They've given up on her.
The younger girl Miss Osayo will be taking over the business.
Young people today all want to go to the big city!
Ofuji!
Don't burn it!
I don't want her father to find it.
I want Oshin to live her own life the way she wants.
I don't want to pull her down on account of us.
I don't want her to suffer as Haru did.
Loafing around again... Where's our dinner?
You left the fields early to make dinner!
Is that any way to talk to your mother?
Stop it. Shoji's upset today.
You're much too easy on him!
You can't blame him. Our crop's a failure again.
After we pay our land-use rent we have to take out rice loans again!
The Great War has driven up the price of rice
but we sharecroppers don't benefit at all!
Only the landlords and merchants get rich!
We have to take out rice loans at higher rates.
How can we go on?
You let Oshin run away while father and I slave!
I don't know anything about Oshin.
Wait until I get my hands on her!
Leave Oshin alone!
Let this house of ours go bankrupt!
If you don't want to farm go work someplace else!
Stop it.
At least we have land to farm! Once we leave the farm
nobody will ever let us work their land again!
We must continue planting rice. If Shoji goes who else will do it?
Go make dinner!
Oshin knew she would never go home again.
If she were to go home she'd have to bring a lot of money with her.
That drove Oshin to work harder.
Where was this hairdresser's place?
I think it was around here...
It's gone?
The whole area burned down during the war.
But I can still see it. How it used to be.
How I used to walk these streets.
I never knew that you were a hairdresser.
I'll bet nobody else knows either. I can't imagine you as one.
I've never seen you fixing anybody's hair.
You even go to the beauty parlor to get your own hair done.
I see.
You never made it as a hairdresser!
Isn't that right?
If you had you wouldn't have opened a supermarket.
You'd have had a beauty parlor.
There used to be fields around here.
Dragonflies and butterflies would be flying around.
I wonder what happened to the other girls.
We all went our separate ways.
I never saw them again.
Some were my age and others were younger.
I'm sure some are still living. I'd like to see them.
Oritsu and Otoyo.
Osono and Osode.
And there was Okei. Onatsu too.
Thanks to Avallac'h and XrayMind at D-Addicts.
Translation: UTB Channel