AUTUMN 1871, KYOTO
Ura...
Oh no!
Mother! Mine! Wake up!
Good morning.
Thank you very much for the kimono.
I'll call you when the food is ready.
We are not guests.
Yes...I'm sorry.
Is this for the miso soup?
The miso soup is ready.
Pickled vegetables?
Good morning.
Thank you very much.
They're from my husband.
Mine, go help your father get ready.
He's already dressed.
YAE NO SAKURA
Episode 32: Brother's Plan
Screenplay: Yamamoto Mutsumi
Theme Music: Sakamoto Ryuichi Music: Nakajima Nobuyuki
Narrator: Kusabue Mitsuko
Kawasaki Yae: Ayase Haruka
Yamamoto Kakuma: Nishijima Hidetoshi
Yamamoto Saku: Fubuki Jun
Yamamoto Tokie: Tanimura Mitsuki
Yamakawa Sutematsu: Mizuhara Kiko
Okubo Toshimichi: Tokushige Satoshi
Iwakura Tomomi: Kosakai Kazuki
Nijima Jo: Odagiri Joe
Kido Takayoshi: Oikawa Mitsuhiro
Makimura Masanao: Takashima Masahiro
Saigo Takamori: Kikkawa Koji
Executive Producer: Naito Shinsuke
Translations by MTI
Director: Ichiki Masae
Father...
Saburo...
The family is back together after nine years.
We'll do our best together.
Please rest in peace.
Father...
Saburo...
A new day begins. Let's all have breakfast.
We're not all here!
Mine!
Yae, don't follow!
Tokie, check on her.
Yes.
Mother...
Mine.
She's in the storage closet and won't come out.
I'll go, then.
Leave the household matters to Tokie.
Kakuma...
You have something else to do.
I hope you like the food.
Go in.
I've never seen so many books.
I collected all the books I've read in Kyoto and Nagasaki.
The new books are read to me.
Read this.
International law?
They are the laws that must be abided by the world's nations.
This is taught to the grade-schoolers in Kyoto.
Is it too difficult for you?
No! I can read this much!
What is this?
It's Germany, the name of an European country.
I have to go.
Are you hungry?
Mine...
What happened?
Administration...
It's confusing.
It's so different from the gunnery books.
But if the children can understand it, so can I.
Is it morning already?
Good morning.
Did you finish reading it?
No...I dozed off.
Is Mine in the closet again?
I'm sorry.
I had a good talk with her before we left Yonezawa.
But she's still a child.
Kakuma.
I'm going to the prefecture office today.
I'll accompany you.
No, it's all right.
Yae, come with me.
What authority governs the nation?
Sovereignty.
What is it used for?
Managing peace, conflicts and relations between nations. KYOTO PREFECTURAL OFFICE
That's the primary purpose of the international law.
Yes.
What business does a rebel have here?
An Aizu man acting important!
Just move on.
I'm sorry I'm late.
Sir, where's Ms. Tokie today?
I have my younger sister accompany me today.
Is she the one who fought our army at the castle?
I'm Governor Makimura.
You have amazing hands.
I'm originally a lowly stipend Choshu samurai.
Choshu?
Please excuse me.
Yae!
Stay.
Are you new to Kyoto?
All the temples and graves made the place depressing.
So I have built shops.
There are theaters and beef hot pot shops now.
Moo!
Next spring, we'll hold an exhibition in Kyoto.
Exhibition?
Hey, wait!
Is it another appeal?
What's going on?
Why are you allowing so many foreigners to come?
Please stop it. This is an ancient city.
We can't let the foreigners trample over it.
It's too late for anti-alienism.
Why did you cancel the Girls' Day Festival?
Such old-fashioned festivals...
will make the great Western Powers look down on us.
That's like telling us, doll makers, to hang ourselves!
Fabric shops, too!
Leave! I'm a busy man!
Leave!
Wait!
How many Girls' Day Dolls can you sell in Japan?
I don't know.
It can't be many.
What if you open the market to the World?
The sales will increase a thousand fold.
What?
Sounds interesting.
Quality products from Japan will be displayed at the Exhibition...
to promote trade with the foreigners.
That will benefit all of you and enrich the nation.
I see your point.
Please give us your support with the exhibition.
I'm pleading with you.
If you lower your head, we can't say no.
We'll make it profitable.
Trust us.
We'll leave things to you.
Please take care of things.
Now, go!
We trust you.
Sir...
...that was marvelous.
If you explain things, they will understand.
We'll gather geishas to dance.
That'll please the foreigners and draw a huge crowd.
For our foreign visitors...
let's make an attractive guide in English.
That's a good idea.
I'll make the draft and have my sister help.
Me?
This heroine knows English, too?
She'll learn starting now.
She'll study at the upcoming school for women.
School for women?
I started that up.
This is the first time I'm hearing of it.
It's a women's school built by the Kyoto prefecture.
While teaching handiwork, you'll learn English.
No. I refuse to go to a school established by the Choshu.
We need someone to care for the girls.
You will work as the live-in housemistress.
Are you telling me...to leave this house?
That's right.
I can't do that!
I have to raise Mine!
Leave Mine to Tokie.
Why?
Do you know how Ura felt when she parted with Mine?
I made a promise to Ura...
That I would raise Mine well!
You're like a different person.
You talk and laugh with the Choshu men.
Doesn't it bother you?
Don't you hate them?
Satsuma and Choshu invaded and destroyed Aizu.
Do you know how it felt to be holed up and attacked?
You don't understand!
Because you weren't at the castle at that time!
Have you finished the book?
We'll be going out tomorrow.
Finish reading the book tonight.
What's wrong?
Kakuma has changed.
He's forgotten about Aizu.
Don't be silly.
Kakuma told me to adjust this to Mine's height.
This kimono was meant for Ura.
He hasn't changed at all.
Mine.
I had your grandmother teach me how to make it.
You must be lonely...
...away from your mother.
You eat that food for celebrations.
We all had it for New Year.
Then my mother measured my height...
and marked it on the pillar.
She was going to show it to Father when he returned.
Mother...!
Mine...
I'm sorry.
KURODANI - KONKAI KOMYOJI
The Aizu camp used to be here.
Here?
Lord...
To protect the Tokugawa, Kyoto, and His Majesty...
he strived as Kyoto Deputy.
But another great power overturned the country.
I couldn't stop Satsuma and Choshu from destroying Aizu.
After Shirakawa Castle fell...
Then Nihonmatsu Castle fell...
That morning, the emergency bell sounded in our town.
Even the women and children fought.
Even when the castle was falling apart from the cannons...
...nobody gave up.
The Aizu are not rebels!
We haven't done anything wrong!
Do you hate the enemy?
I can't forgive them.
Same here.
Then why are you helping the Choshu people?
Why are you working for the enemy?
This is my battle.
What?
The current government that was built on Aizu's sacrifice is wrong.
But we are fellow countrymen.
We mustn't fight and kill each other again.
Then...
...will Aizu...
...remain crushed?
No...
That's not true.
Insights?
Plans for the new government.
The future my comrades had envisioned.
Our clan was defeated and fell to demise.
Even if all is turned to ashes, there will be people who will rise up.
We, the survivors, must act.
Women studies...
Read it.
Capable individuals will govern the country...
therefore, going forward...
women should be educated just the same as men.
You should understand that.
Wisdom and knowledge will be the greatest weapons.
No one knows that like you do.
The new government abandoned Kyoto.
I'll build a city of culture here.
A strong city that won't be crushed by military might.
Kakuma...?
Gain new knowledge.
Learn world culture.
Education will be your weapon now.
Where the Aizu clan staked their lives...
Please fight with me.
Women should be...
...educated just the same as men.
Mine.
Stewed vegetables?
Is this a red comb?
Ura...
Everything is ruled by fate.
Cherish it.
I will.
We're finally all here.
Let's celebrate.
Yes.
Tokie.
Sit here.
Yes.
WASHINGTON
The treaty that Japan had during this period... WASHINGTON
with the U.S. and European Powers were all unequal to Japan.
With Iwakura as the ambassador...
they visited the U.S. to revise the treaty
and to observe the Western Culture.
Nijima Jo was the interpreter for the delegation.
We received a reply from U.S. Secretary of State Fish.
Your power of attorney lacks endorsement by the Emperor...
so you do not have the power to revise and sign the treaty.
Therefore, he can not discuss this with you.
I'll go back and get a new power of attorney.
Are we stuck here in the meantime?
We are having unrests from the domain abolishment.
I was against all of us being absent.
Okubo, you dragged us here.
You didn't want us to proceed with things during your absence.
Stop it. What good is it to fight here?
Who knows what they are doing in Tokyo now?
Okuma of Saga, Itagaki of Tosa and ....
...Saigo of Satsuma.
Row row row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily merrily merrily merrily
Life is but a dream.
Miss Sutematsu.
Did you memorize the song already?
Mr. Niijima, good evening.
May I sit next to you?
Please.
The delegates have a terrible reputation here.
But they rave about you female students.
Sutematsu is an unusual name.
My mother gave me that name before I left Japan.
It means, she'll wait while half giving up.
She must be worried about you.
No...she's an Aizu woman.
Once she decides, she doesn't turn back.
I had an unusual name as a child.
I have four older sisters.
Finally, on the fifth try, they had me, a boy.
That's when my grandfather shouted "shimeta" (good work)!
That's how I got my name Niijima Shimeta.
Oh my.
You're enjoying yourself.
You were arguing again.
Getting a new power of attorney means nothing.
The U.S. looks down on Japan.
I can't leave matters to Okubo.
How ironic.
Satsuma and Choshu were working close together.
But now we're suspicious and competitive.
Won't you return to Japan?
How about working for the Ministry of Education?
I'm sorry but I have no political aspirations.
It's a pity.
Now that I'm on foreign soil...
those days of anti-alienism seem unreal.
Yes.
Let me know when you feel like going home.
Study hard now.
I will.
I don't trust Choshu people.
But they're paying for my education here.
It shouldn't matter who's paying for it.
Go ahead and use them for their money.
To gain education.
To eat good food.
Miss Sutematsu, you have a vast...
and abundant world before you.
Yes.
Ms. Yae...Sir Kakuma wants to see you.
Aren't you busy negotiating with Saga and Choshu?
You can see everything.
Excuse me.
This is Sir Saigo.
With Satsuma?
You're the woman who shot Yasuke.
I'm Yae.
I came to Kyoto to dispose of the Satsuma mansion.
Will you buy it?
The mansion I was at for two years?
When you start new things, you need space.
Why?
You can get a better price from others.
Why would a Satsuma man want to accommodate Aizu?
If something had gone wrong...
...our positions would have been reversed.
Then the entire Satsuma clan would have fought with their lives
against the Imperial Army.
We fought in battle to build a new nation.
But I always thought Satsuma and Aizu had similar qualities.
We both have the samurai spirit.
Then why didn't you stop Aizu from demise?
I'm sure you'll make good use of that land.
Yes.
Definitely.
Kakuma...
Will education give me the answer?
It surely will.
The way I am now...
...I can't win.
Go on.
Yes!
Take care of yourself.
You too mother.
Please take care of my mother, Mine, and Kakuma.
Please leave them to me.
I'll be going then.
Go on.
END OF EPISODE 32
Ms. Yae is brave.
Just answer the question.
When you learn English, you may get your dream.
It's going to explode. We have to act now.
I respect you for crushing the rusting country.
But that's about all you did.
The wife I love walks gallantly before her husband.
You are someone who lives in a new era.