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Episode 54
Two years had passed since Oshin began working for Taka.
Oshin was still a maid
and she wasn't allowed to touch the customer's hair.
She was 18
and in the prime of her maidenhood but spent all her days working.
Oshin. The toilet's dirty.
You two are the same age and she talks down to you.
I feel so badly for you...
It can't be helped Onatsu's my senior here.
You should've let her quit.
Then you could've had her job combing hair everyday.
Go mind the parlor!
Oshin's days were the same routine over and over.
Sometimes she felt as though time had stopped
she felt desperate.
But the world was fast changing around her.
The hairdresser's world was changing too.
Where's the owner?
She's out making house calls with Osode today.
It's too hot for a lot of our customers to come here.
Why do we have to get our hair done anyway?
Welcome!
Please sit down.
Okei there's a customer.
Welcome!
Isn't it hot today?
- No I just washed it. - But...
I'm in a hurry. Just do me in an easy casual way.
How?
You know the latest Taisho-maki style.
Give me a style that nobody has yet.
Maybe you can put waves in my hair.
We only do traditional Japanese hairstyles!
Then you should have told me as I came in.
You can't even do Western-style hair!
What a waste of my time!
Listen to her!
What's wrong with her... She's so rude!
I'd like to see her parents!
Western-style hair sure is popular now.
Sagami-ya's wife quit her traditional style.
She says her head feels lighter now.
Maybe I'll do the same...
Please stop joking!
A restaurant owner can't have modern hair.
I'm sure the geisha will never change their hair.
Oshin could sense it...
A day will come when traditional hairstyles will be gone.
Mail!
Thank you!
This one's for you.
It's from mother!
I haven't heard from you but I hope all is well.
I'm well and still working so don't worry about me.
I'm having Oriki pen this letter to you.
Kaga-ya's Miss Osayo just passed away.
She died of pneumonia.
Miss Okayo's still missing... The family's heartbroken.
I owe them so much.
I raised that girl on my very back.
I know there isn't much sense in me going
but I feel I should go to offer my condolences.
I realize I'm asking a lot of you but...
Will this much money do?
Thank you! I'll be sure to pay you back.
Never mind. It's for your hard work to date.
Take five or six days off. Stay as long as it takes.
Will you be coming back?
I haven't taught you much about hair yet.
I wouldn't want to have any regrets.
Wear this. It's too young for me.
Oshin had vowed never to return to Sakata
after the bitter experience with Kota and Kayo.
But now that Sayo was dead
she wanted only to comfort the Kaga-ya family.
She'd been gone from Sakata for two years.
I'm so glad that you came.
Sayo must be very happy too.
Where are you now?
Oriki said you went to Tokyo to learn hairdressing.
That's right.
As you always told me.
I feel I should have a skill so that I can live life on my own.
Have you any news of Kayo in Tokyo?
You don't know about the man she's with?
Stop it.
You haven't heard anything at all?
We promised not to talk about Kayo.
Yes but now that Sayo's dead
we need Kayo to come home.
I'd never let her take over the business anyway.
Even if she comes home I'll not let her inside!
Why don't you just stay here with us?
Please!
Mino...
Oshin grew up here just like Kayo and Sayo.
She's like a daughter to me!
Grandma wants you here too. You don't have to suffer in Tokyo.
- Stop talking nonsense. - But...
Now that both of my daughters are gone...
I'm so lonely...
There's no laughter in the house.
Please! Stay with us.
Oshin!
It's like old times... Those were such good days.
It's not good to live a long life.
Please don't say that.
It's not just about Kayo and Osayo.
I don't know how long our Kaga-ya can remain as is.
Have you heard about the rice riots in Toyama?
Yes I heard rumors.
America's declaring war on Germany
and in Russia they had a revolution.
And there's a big inflation in prices here in Japan.
The price of rice just keeps going up.
The wives of fishermen in Toyama began demanding lower rice prices.
if one hoards rice one can just sit back
and get rich as the prices keep going up.
People resent all rice dealers now.
Maybe it's punishment that we lost both Kayo and Osayo.
Thank you. Join me for tea now.
You see Oshin...
Happiness isn't found in money or material things.
No matter how much money we have
we're powerless to change what happened to Kayo and Osayo.
Happiness based on material things is fleeting.
The important thing is to live life without regrets.
I'd happily give up on Kayo if that's how she's living her life.
If you should ever run into Kayo
please tell her what I just told you.
But if she's having a hard time in life
please try and help her.
I will.
I'm so happy to see you again and talk.
You've lifted a great weight off my shoulders.
Oshin's visit to Sakata reopened the wounds
in her heart that she had tried to heal.
Oshin had just gotten back to Ueno Station in Tokyo.
She heard a crowd of men shouting.
There's a rice riot in Hibiya!
Thanks to Avallac'h and XrayMind at D-Addicts.
Translation: UTB Channel