Brought to you by The Gifted Ones www.giftedones.net
Please do not stream or make profit from these subtitles.
Episode 65
They've just brought the wedding kimono over.
You sure chose a good pattern!
Kayo is tall so she'll look great in it.
I can't die until I see my Kayo married.
You'll be fine. Your heart is a little weak that's all.
The doctor says all you need is rest.
I know my body best.
If it's after the wedding I don't care when I die.
I won't die until I see her in her wedding gown.
There's no time. If she suffers another attack
she'll surely die so please get married.
That's the least you can do for her!
Then let me go to Tokyo just once!
You can't cause her any more worry!
She'll die!
Oshin can take care of your things in Tokyo.
You mustn't go to Tokyo!
But Kayo still couldn't give up on Kota.
She planned on leaving no matter what if Kota should come back.
She was willing to abandon her family and Kaga-ya
so she could live her own life.
She was just awaiting word from Oshin.
Has it been a month already?
You seem to be doing fine.
Yes thanks to you. I've been getting new clients too.
I do about 10 clients each day.
That's great!
I make it cheap. Just 10 sen per customer.
10 sen?
It's not like doing Japanese-style hair!
Besides I'm not that good yet. But most customers tip me too.
I hear you're also doing sewing.
Your landlord is very impressed with you.
I can't just sit and idle my time away.
Sewing helps to pay my rent.
I made 32 yen last month doing just hair.
With my sewing and tips it came to 47 yen 65 sen.
Earning so much at your age?
I owe it all to you.
I've brought you something. It's not much.
I hope you like it.
I sewed it myself.
And these sweets are for everybody.
I appreciate all this
but keep in mind that you left here on your own
and that is why we didn't help
you to move into your new place.
We need to set that straight.
Everything you did you did on your own.
So no more gifts please.
Oshin...
Your mother must be worried about you.
Send her something instead of buying gifts for me.
After three years you're finally able to help her.
I'll do that.
Aren't you glad?
You've kept the promise you made to your late sister.
Be wary of clients...
If one leave you they all leave.
Take very good care of each one!
But I suppose you already know that.
That night Oshin wrote to her mother in Yamagata.
She was also enclosing 20 yen with the letter.
She had earned it all herself.
It was big money to a girl
who was traded into servitude at age seven for a single bale of rice.
20 yen was that big money?
It was 1919 a year after the Great War.
Prices kept going up.
One sho of rice was 60 sen and that caused an uproar.
An average office worker made 25 or 30 yen per month.
So it was a big deal for a young girl
to be earning close to 50 yen per month!
Those were my happiest moments. It was like a dream.
I'd been working for three years with no salary at all.
Then I was making all this money every day!
And now you run a chain of supermarkets!
A single yen meant more to me than 100 million yen today!
How soon people forget...
They're never satisfied no matter how much they have.
And people lose a sense of their values.
You're making me feel guilty.
I changed too.
I've forgotten what it really felt like
to have earned my first 47 yen 65 sen.
You were 19 years old? In your prime of youth!
I felt then that luck was coming my way.
Your landlord said you were at the post office.
Okayo asked me to come by.
She's back from Sakata?
No she called me on the telephone. She needs to talk to you.
She wants you to be by my phone at my office around noon today.
It's because there's no phone where you live.
And you came all this way just to tell me?
How else could I let you know?
Thank you very much! I know how busy you are.
It's for Okayo. I'm glad to help her out.
It must be very important for her to have called.
I wonder what it is...
She wouldn't tell me anything.
Won't you come and wait at my place?
You could come later but you might get lost.
Yes. I'd be glad to follow you there.
We'll get a taxi.
I can walk.
Sorry but I can't be away from work for that long.
I'm going out to Yokohama.
Good work!
Please come in.
This is Oshin the hairdresser.
She's the friend of that caller from Sakata.
She's expecting a call around noon.
Pardon the intrusion.
I have to get back to work.
Take a seat.
Tanokura Trading.
Yes I have just the material for you.
Thank you. I'll see you later.
Tanokura Trading dealt in clothing fabrics.
Oshin had never seen a business such as this one.
She was impressed.
Oshin is that you?
Sorry for calling you up like this.
I have to get married and take an adoptive husband.
So much has happened since I came back.
But if Kota should come back
I'll go back to Tokyo as soon as I can so call me!
But if I get no news before my wedding day
I will forget Kota once and for all.
I'll accept as my fate.
I'm counting on Kota.
So call me even if it's my nuptial night!
At the office it's all men so we can't make tea.
We're only busy in the mornings when we take the orders.
The men make their deliveries in the afternoon.
So we have time for a leisurely lunch.
What Okayo had to say was that serious?
She's taking a husband in Sakata.
She is?
That's great!
She used to tell me a lot about her lover.
I'm glad she's finally getting over him.
I hear he's involved in those illegal labor movements.
She could never be happy with such a man.
It's best that she stays home and takes over her family business.
I used to tell her that all the time.
You knew that much about her?
She didn't have many people she could talk to.
I'm happy for her.
I think this is all very good for Okayo.
Do you really think so?
Yes.
She's like a flower in a greenhouse.
If she tries to live like the wees she will wither.
After she gets married she'll forget all about her lover!
Now...
Order anything you want.
Who's there?
Oshin is that you?
I wasn't sure who it was so I hid.
I'm still running from the secret police.
But I never expected to see you here.
Thanks to Avallac'h and XrayMind at D-Addicts.
Translation: UTB Channel