After the surrender of Tsuruga Castle...
the Aizu were allowed to restore their clan.
Their new fief was in the northern Mutsu province...
and their stipend was reduced from 280,000 koku to 30,000.
Yamakawa named this land Tonami.
They were determined to build a strong province on trade.
Meanwhile, Yae was staying with Sir Naito in Yonezawa...
and made a living peddling goods.
You worked hard today.
I hope we can sell more tomorrow.
We'll do fine.
It's getting cold.
Yeah. It's cold.
Let's warm each other up.
We're back.
Yae, hurry.
Look!
Sir Naito?
This came for you.
It's from Sir Shonosuke.
I rushed over. It might be good news.
Divorce?
YAE NO SAKURA
Episode 31: A Reason for Divorce
Screenplay: Yamamoto Mutsumi
Theme Music: Sakamoto Ryuichi Music: Nakajima Nobuyuki
Narrator: Kusabue Mitsuko
Kawasaki Yae: Ayase Haruka
Yamamoto Kakuma: Nishijima Hidetoshi
Kawasaki Shonosuke: Hasegawa Hiroki
Yamamoto Saku: Fubuki Jun
Yamamoto Ura: Hasegawa Kyoko
Yamakawa Okura: Tamayama Tetsuji
Takagi Tokio: Kanjiya Shihori
Yamakawa Futaba: Ichikawa Mikako
Hinata Yuki: Gouriki Ayame
Yamamoto Tokie: Tanimura Mitsuki
Saito Haijime: Furuya Kenji
Kajiwara Heima: Ikeuchi Hiroyuki
Hirosawa Tomijiro: Okada Yoshinori
Okubo Ichizo: Tokushige Satoshi
Iwakura Tomomi: Kosakai Kazuki
Kido Takayoshi: Oikawa Mitsuhiro
Saigo Kichinosuke: Kikkawa Koji
Makimura Masanao: Takashima Masahiro
Ooyama Yasuke: Sorimachi Takashi
Executive Producer: Naito Shinsuke
Translations by MTI
Director: Sasaki Yoshiharu
I'll do the selling today.
You will? Why?
Why don't you think it over today about Sir Shonosuke?
There's nothing to think about.
A woman can't refuse a divorce.
He must have found a better woman in Tonami.
He wouldn't do that.
The letter didn't come from Tonami.
There must be a reason.
I won't know what it is unless he tells me.
If he has a problem, I wish he'd tell me.
If he's suffering, I want to suffer with him.
That's what marriage is about.
It's like that time.
There's a woman among us!
She's right here!
Sir Shonosuke!
Sir Shonosuke...!
He decides everything.
Sir Shonosuke is selfish.
I have no choice but to accept it.
TONAMI CLAN
In Tonami, many were dying from the severe cold and hunger.
GONOHE
HINATA YUKI
I can't take another step. HINATA YUKI
TANABU, TONAMI
Yamakawa Okura became the Tonami administrator.
He changed his name to Hiroshi...
and was administrating his distressed clan.
This fief is worth only 7,000 koku.
Sir Yamakawa, the clansmen...
Settle down!
We have no rice or beans!
Settle down!
We're asking the landlords to sell us rice.
We can't wait any longer!
This won't change anything!
Sir Yamakawa!
That's Sir Yamakawa.
Sir Yamakawa...
Men...
Please bear it a bit longer.
If we bear it any longer, we will starve to death.
We'll all die before we defeat Satsuma-Choshu.
I agree.
We'll all die at this rate.
How long can we wait?
Please bear it.
Once we survive winter, things will be brighter.
Please bear it.
Please!
If only Sir Kawasaki had obtained the rice...
To save the distressed Tonami people...
Shonosuke was busy trying to obtain rice in Hokkaido.
But he was caught up in a scam.
Tonami clansman Kawasaki Shonosuke.
You're being interrogated.
Open up!
She was unconscious.
Yuki!
Tokio...
Yuki!
You're alive!
I'm so glad.
You must be freezing.
Come.
Where do you live now?
In Noheji. I came here for charity food.
You walked in the snow?
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much!
Thanks to you, I was able to see Tokio.
Don't mention it.
Is he your relative?
He's Sir Saito with the Shinsengumi.
Hey.
We were on the same ship coming here. He helps us out a lot.
Why? I heard the Shinsengumi was a group of killers.
Yuki....
I heard the Choshu hate the Aizu deeply...
because the Shinsengumi went overboard.
They put us in this predicament.
That's not true!
They staked their lives for Aizu!
They fought with us to the very end!
But...!
That's the truth!
Even now...
Say no more!
How pathetic.
Life is hard so they're trying to cast the blame on others.
Who would have thought life would be worse after the war?
NEW CAPITAL, TOKYO
Tokyo was emerging as a modern city.
Transportation, architecture...
Everything was rapidly changing.
Amidst that...
there was a secret plan to transform Japan in major way.
IWAKURA TOMOMI'S MANSION IN TOKYO
We have another riot.
There are riots all over.
We can't quell them when the clans are distressed.
We overspent funds to overthrow the Shogunate.
So the new government must pay for that.
We need money to build a new system.
We can't afford to support the useless clans anymore.
That is why the government must grasp complete control.
We'll eliminate the clan system and establish prefectures.
We'll send unrelated men to manage them.
That puts...
...an end to the samurai system.
That is inevitable.
This is the second stage.
Eliminating clans would make two millions samurai jobless.
That may trigger another war.
I'll control the soldiers.
However...
If this plan should ever fail...
be prepared to commit harakiri.
That's how serious it is to end the samurai rule.
We're at a loss.
The heavy snow destroyed the port.
When can we start trade?
Men! I've got news!
Make it later.
Sir Kawasaki's rice trading is going to litigation.
Tonami clansman Kawasaki Shonosuke...
Under the order of the Tonami clan administrator...
you contracted to buy 1,500 bales of rice from a Denmark merchant.
Yet you breached the contract.
You're being sued for breach of contract.
Weren't you acting under the order of the Tonami clan?
We couldn't pay it because we were tricked by the middleman.
Do we still have to pay?
No...the merchant is suing for breach of contract.
If we lose, we'll have to pay 3,000 ryo.
From what I heard, Sir Shonosuke said...
No...it was not the clan's order.
This was entirely my own doing.
He said he acted on his own.
They're asking if it really wasn't the clan's order.
He did it for the sake of the Tonami people.
We can't ignore it.
It doesn't concern us.
Tell them that the Tonami clan has nothing to do with it.
If we have to repay the 3,000 ryo on top of all this...
the Tonami clan of 18,000 will die.
Are you abandoning Kawasaki?
That would be too...!
Demonic?!
I'm a demon.
The trial would last four years in Tokyo.
It's getting cold.
Was I...Was I wrong?
If I had gone to Tonami...
Instead of waiting, if I had only come to him...
I miss my husband.
I really miss him.
You'll get to see him...
Then you'll know what happened.
In July of 1871...
the clans were abolished and prefectures established.
Written notice was sent countrywide.
Prefectures would be managed by men sent by the government.
The Tonami clan lasted just two years.
The clan will be gone.
Without the clans, what will happen to the samurai?
What will become of our lord?
Is reclaiming Aizu impossible?
All our efforts so far...
...to take revenge on Satsuma and Choshu...
Will it all be for naught?!
It won't end at this.
Will Tonami be gone?
Prefectures will be established.
The Aizu clan has lost everything.
Who knows what will happen to the Yonezawa clan?
What's going to happen to my stipend and mansion?
Please excuse me. You have a visitor.
You must be Ms. Yamamoto Saku.
Yes, I am.
I'm so glad to finally find you.
I'm Aizu clansman, Nozawa.
I was sent by Sir Kakuma.
What?
Did you say...
...Sir Kakuma?
Is Kakuma alive?!
Mine!
Have some.
I'm so glad he's alive.
He was released last year.
He's working in Kyoto now.
He's doing well then.
Last year?
He'll be living in Kawaramachi.
This is a letter from Sir Kakuma and his new address.
He wants all of you to come to Kyoto.
To Kyoto?
What's going on?
I thought he'd rush over if he knew we were alive.
There's a reason for that.
He wants to tell you in person.
This is...
...not his writing.
Who...
...is with him?
Who is taking care of him?
Actually...
This past spring...
...he had a child with Ms. Tokie.
Going forward, women should be educated, too.
I completely agree.
That's what you wrote in prison, too.
That was an eye-opener.
Even the rebels had wise men like you.
He wrote this while he was imprisoned.
It's inspiriting.
Have a seat, Makimura.
Yes, I will.
He's ahead of us in conceptualizing the political reforms, building...
wealth, military strength, and promoting new industries.
The Ministry of Education...
He could be useful.
He's with the Aizu. He can't be employed by the government.
That is why I left him under Kido.
With your skills and his wisdom, Kyoto can be revived.
After His Majesty moved to Tokyo, Kyoto has declined.
It has to be restored to what it once was, or even better.
Yes.
Excuse me.
Someone is here for you.
Please come in.
If you'll excuse me.
Let's work together in rebuilding Kyoto.
Yes.
Let me help you.
Are you all right?
You're strong.
I'm counting on your help!
Yamamoto Kakuma...
He's exactly how I heard of him.
I'm going to write to Kakuma.
What will you say?
I'm not going to Kyoto.
You're not going to see him?
I thought he was dead, and had given up on him.
But he's alive!
This is too cruel for Ura.
I'll have him kick that woman out.
We can talk after that.
Are you going to tell him to kick out his child?
Are you going to throw her out of the house?
We thought he was dead and had given up on him.
He might have thought that we were all dead.
He must have a reason.
You need to talk to him.
You of all people should know that.
We must think about Mine's future too.
What are you going to do?
I'm going to Tokyo.
Many are leaving Tonami without anything.
I've decided to help them as best I can.
We're all going our separate ways.
Please excuse me.
How's (my nephew) Torachiyo?
He's doing fine.
He has strong luck.
When he got lost during the war, I thought he'd be dead.
I remember.
Torachiyo is the head of the Kajiwara family.
He's promising.
Heima, what will you do from now on?
Futaba.
Yes.
Go back to the Yamakawa's.
What?
Please take Futaba and Torachiyo to Tokyo with you.
What are you saying?
Please take them in.
I don't want that.
I don't want a divorce.
I...
...am...
...your wife.
Don't make it harder.
I'm an empty shell.
I have no will to start over in Tokyo.
Mother.
Will the two of you take Mine to Kyoto?
I...
...am not going.
Ura...
What are you saying? We can't leave you behind.
Are you unable to forgive Kakuma?
I keep asking myself...
if I can live in the same house with that mother and child.
You are Kakuma's wife.
Don't hold back. Act proud.
How can I?
How can I not be jealous?
How can I act proud?
Ura...
I'll probably direct my anger at him.
I would hate that woman and complain.
I don't want my daughter...
...to see me like that.
Besides...
I have my female pride.
Ura...
I want him to remember me...
...with the red comb.
Please take care...
...of Mine.
Ura!
The following morning, Ura departed for Aizu...
while the other three went to Kyoto.
Please have a safe journey.
We'll be going now.
Let's go.
Mother!
I'm not going!
If you're not going, neither am I!
Like I keep saying...
I'm going back to Aizu!
You have to go to your father!
No! I'm staying with you!
Mine!
Mine...
A samurai's daughter should not be a cry-baby.
Mine...
This is mother's treasure.
Take care of yourself!
Mine!
Mother!
Don't go after her!
Mother...!
I'll raise her properly.
Mother!
Ura...
KYOTO
October 1871...
Nine years had passed since they last saw Kakuma in Aizu.
Mother.
Excuse me!
Yes!
Are you my husband's...?
Are you Kakuma's...?
My name is Tokie.
Thank you for coming.
Please come this way.
Please.
Is that you, Yae?
Don't push yourself!
It's all right.
Mother...
Mine, are you here?
Mine is with us.
Careful!
Kakuma!
What's wrong?
Mother...I'm sorry.
I'm in this sad state now.
I couldn't look for you...
...or go and get you.
I'm sorry.
Kakuma...
I'm glad you're alive!
I'm so glad!
So glad!
Kakuma!
I'm so glad!
END OF EPISODE 31
Sutematsu is an unusual name.
I'm a woman of Aizu.
Once I decide, I don't turn back.
You don�t understand how Ura felt when she parted with Mine!
The Aizu and Satsuma clans have samurai spirit.
Our clan was defeated and fell to demise.
Even if all turns to ash, there will be people who will rise.
Education will be your weapon now.