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Episode 23
Sakuzo had given up on taking his family to Brazil because
of his family's concern for their grandma.
Fuji now had to find work away from home...
It was a day in early autumn...
What are you bundling up?
Have your fill of milk while you can...
It's a great day to set out on a journey.
Thank you for coming.
I'm glad to help out.
I'm feeding the baby now.
There's no hurry.
Go on... have all the milk while you can.
Are you done?
I guess that's all she wants for now.
I beg your kindness.
Good girl...
A cute baby...
That family you'll be giving the baby up to is rich don't worry.
I trust you to find her a good home.
It's best if I take the baby over...
It'll save you the heartache...
They'll raise her as their own.
They asked that you not know who they are for the baby's sake.
I understand...
If I knew who they are I'd want to see the child.
It's better that I don't know...
I'll take it as I didn't bear this child I've prepared myself for this long ago.
These are her clothes. Please take them.
I'm sure they have fine clothes for her there but please take it.
Mother! You're giving Sumi away?
Where is she being taken?
Go on they must be waiting.
They're outside waiting. Well then...
No she's my sister!
I'm sorry.
I have no choice.
Mother...
Oshin I don't want Sumi to have to suffer as you do.
To be born a girl here is to suffer!
I want her to have a better life.
I don't care how poor we are...
I don't want to be adopted by somebody else!
Sumi's just a baby... She'll never miss us.
She'll grow up thinking of the new family as her own!
Sumi's a cute baby...
They'll be good to her.
She won't have to go to work like you or eat daikon gruel!
She won't have to babysit clean or do the wash.
She'll wear pretty clothes eat her fill and maybe even go to school.
Oriki's taken Sumi... I feel better now.
Grandma and Oshin can care for the younger ones.
Now I can go and get a job. I'm leaving tomorrow morning.
You're leaving already?
They've been after me to come to work sooner.
But finding a home for Sumi took a while.
Where will you go?
I'll be going to the hot springs in Ginzan.
What will you do there?
I'll work as a maid there at the inn.
What does a maid do?
Well.. I'll cook clean and do other chores.
Is it hard work?
Easier than working in the rice paddy.
I'm counting on you to fill in for me here.
If only I'd stayed at my job...
Don't worry... I'd have to work anyway.
So just take care of things here.
Let's eat!
What's the matter... Are you ill?
I'm not sick...
I'm just full of milk because I'm not feeding Sumi.
Mother...
I'm sorry I said those mean things to you.
Fuji left early in the morning.
Although she said she'd work as a maid
the kids had no idea what she really would be doing.
You saw her off?
I hope nobody cried...
If I weren't here Ofuji wouldn't have had to go away to work.
Oh stop it! It's not your fault.
We all work hard and so do you!
It's not our fault that we're poor.
Nobody's loafing...
It can't be helped.
I'll get us some money when I'm older.
I'll have a lot of money so that we can all live in comfort!
Let me change your dressing.
Remember... We all need you here!
So we want you up and around soon.
Not ready yet? You have to get up before dawn!
Go help out with planting cedar saplings today.
Every family has to contribute one worker.
You'll be going in your mother's place.
Shoji and I are too busy.
But...
You have no more babysitting chores so you will have to fill in!
Rest if you're tired.
I couldn't believe it that her father sent her here.
But she sure has a lot of determination!
When will these grow tall?
It'll be 40 or 50 years before they're ready for cutting.
We'll all be dead...
How old will you be?
In 40 years I'll be 48. In 50 years I'll be 58.
You can count? That's very good!
What will you be doing then?
I'll be rich and I'll buy these trees that I'm planting.
You'll buy the whole hill?
I don't want anybody else to have it.
She's no ordinary girl!
Did you buy the trees later?
No!
Those seedlings gave us a lot of trouble.
I worked hard so as not to fall behind the others.
I went on for days but I never quit.
I just kept working.
Thanks that's enough.
You sure are a big help to me.
I'm probably a big bother for asking so many questions.
I'd be lonely if I had nobody to talk to.
No wonder you're so tough. You're not like us!
You enjoy working.
Nobody wants to have to work hard.
As a poor farm girl I had no choice.
It wasn't just me...
We all had it tough in those days.
Going off to work wouldn't have been so bad...
Many had to get jobs catering to male customers at inns.
Compared to that it was good to work at home.
I was made to work hard but I was lucky.
I soon found a live-in job. I was so happy.
Two years of work for five bales of rice!
You were sold again for rice?
Five sacks of rice means a lot to my family.
I was look down upon as a sponger so I was glad to be of help to my family.
Work for two years and get five sacks of rice only!
This is really unimaginable to us now! I cannot understand...
The rice dealer is looking for a babysitter.
Oshin can get five bales of rice for two years of work.
Oshin's a good worker. They will like her.
But...
Do they know that she failed at her last job?
They don't know. She won't have to worry.
Sakata's too far to hear about it.
I'll go and I won't run away this time.
I won't cause us all to lose face again.
What will we do without you?
We'll get five bales of rice?
Thanks to Avallac'h and XrayMind at D-Addicts.
Translation: UTB Channel