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Episode 17
The mortar's done!
You've made both the mortar and pestle?
Matsu-ji wanted you to be able to enjoy mochi so he made this for you.
We don't usually pound mochi up here.
I'd bought some mochi rice to make dumpling offerings.
You did all this for me?
It was easy!
You can make anything!
I used to pound mochi for my sons.
Matsu-ji...
I think it's just right.
You turn the rice. I'll pound it.
I've never helped pound mochi.
Tokyo people are useless!
Then you pound and I'll turn it.
Not like that!
Move aside.
Pounding mochi is hard!
So there are some things you can't do.
I'll turn the rice.
We pound mochi at home on New Year's.
You're good!
Oshin was happy the happiest she's ever been.
She got to eat her fill here and learn many things.
But most of all there was the warmth of heart.
Oshin learned that it took more than material things to make people happy.
13... 14... 15...
We have 15 mochi!
Now we're ready for the New Year.
Here's something for you to wear on New Year's.
I made it from rabbit pelts that Shunsaku got.
They're valuable!
When spring comes you can go into town and trade pelts for many things.
Don't you worry about it.
It feels so warm!
You look lovely.
You won't have to wear Shunsaku's anymore.
It was too big for you anyway.
You need clothes until you go home in the spring.
I can still patch up my old kimono.
I don't need anything new.
Thank you very much.
Thank you so much.
I'm a lucky girl!
I forgot to take in the wash.
- Matsu-ji... - What?
You're as soft on her as I am!
Oshin's like a grand- daughter to me.
But spring will come even if I don't don't want it to come.
My dear brother do not die.
I wonder if mother had her baby yet?
Is it a new brother or a sister?
Where were you?
Fuji!
You snuck some rice out! Where did you go?
You think I don't know?
A single measure of rice can feed us for days!
Fuji!
Fuji...
Oshin's finally come home...
What's going on?
I went to the temple to get Oshin a posthumous name.
I took them one sho of rice for the prayers.
I feel so badly for Oshin...
But I just want her to rest in peace.
You fool!
Sakuzo!
We don't even know if she's dead yet!
And you gave away our precious rice!
Who needs this?
She's only seven...
No word means she's dead!
I've been dreaming about her...
I've been wanting to hold services for her!
You want rice that badly?
And that's why you deny that she's dead?
I don't care if I don't eat I did it for Oshin!
Fuji...
Sakuzo loves Oshin too.
That's why he refuses to believe that she's dead.
I want to believe it too...
When the snow melts in the spring we'll know...
It won't do any good to find her dead...
She'll never make it to heaven on her own.
She's buried out there in the snow...
Fuji...
Oshin's had it tough all her life...
I want to make sure she gets into heaven...
That's a mother's love...
Oshin... Enjoy life in heaven.
I went to help pound some mochi.
I pounded five sho of rice. When will we pound ours?
It's almost New Year's!
We won't have any...
Why not?
We harvested a lot of mochi rice this year!
We have a death in the family... There'll be no New Year!
That's why we can't have any mochi!
Your home brew isn't bad!
We only drink once a year. I aged it well.
This is a very happy New Year!
It was just you and me last year it was no fun.
Thanks to Oshin we even made mochi this year!
I haven't felt like this in years!
What's the matter?
I used to hear that song...
as I was washing diapers where I worked.
It always makes me feel sad.
I used to dream of going back up the river... to my home.
You want to go home?
They must be worried sick about you.
I won't go home until my work period is up.
What about your employers?
They think I've gone home.
My family doesn't expect me until the spring.
You sure are a smart girl and brave too!
3 x 3 =9 3 x 4 = 12
3 x 5 = 15 3 x 6 = 18
3 x 7 = 21 3 x 8 = 24
3 x 9 = 27
Will you sell that kannon figure to the villagers?
No...
Then why do you keep carving so many?
It's to soothe the souls of the dead...
For all those who died in the war.
No...
For all the men that I've killed...
Oshin...
In life you'll have many problems. You'll meet people you don't like.
But never hate people or hurt them.
To hate is to hurt oneself.
To hurt someone is also to hurt yourself.
It'll all come back to you.
Before you even think of hating someone put yourself in their place.
Ask yourself why they're being so hard on you.
There has to be a reason... So try to better yourself.
But if they're mean without good reason just pity them.
They must be miserable souls to want to hurt you.
They're to be pitied.
So forgive them.
Can you understand that?
I want you to grow up being able to forgive.
To be able to love is to allow them to love you.
That'll make your life more full. Just remember that.
I've taught you to read and to compute numbers.
But that doesn't make a complete person.
Even if you have a lot of learning
if you're not worthy that learning will be worthless.
Maybe that's too hard for you to understand.
Oshin wasn't able to understand all that he said.
But she could understand that Shunsaku was deeply hurt
for having killed people in the war.
She wanted to grow up being able to love.
But she didn't yet know what love was.
Without Oshin realizing it spring was almost upon them.
Thanks to Avallac'h and XrayMind at D-Addicts.
Translation: UTB Channel