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Episode 121
You're still up?
Mother wanted me to give her a massage.
You're still upset?
You should've gone to bed first.
I needed to talk to you.
You will have trouble getting up in the morning.
Why can't I do hairstyling?
Keep your voice down!
I don't care if people hear me.
Oshin!
I want money.
I'd like to do hair here. Even for 10 sen a day!
I want money for myself!
Otherwise I can't even buy soap for the baby's diapers.
There's plenty of soap here. Just use it!
I would if I could.
Your sister-in-law told me that your mother
hasn't given her money to buy soap for me to use.
I can't blame her... Soap costs money.
Your mother gives her the bare minimum to live on.
Then tell my mother.
There are other things I need too.
I can't ask her for any extras. She already feeds us.
Besides I can't even eat seconds of the rice.
I'm going to be the first to eat tomorrow.
And I'll have seconds!
I don't even have paper or ink with which to write letters.
There is no desk I can use either.
You still have the money Okayo gave you.
Use it!
It'll go in no time if we spend it for whatever we want.
We need that money for emergencies.
It's best if we earn our own money.
We get fed here but the household budget
is tightly controlled by your sister-in-law.
All we do is work. We have no freedom.
All right.
I'll ask Mother for an allowance.
No! That's not what I'm saying.
She'll understand.
She would just scold me!
Just ask her if I can do people's hair.
I'm sure many women here want their hair done.
Oshin...
I'll do the farm work too!
You don't seem to understand what my mother is saying!
What's the problem if I do people's hair?
It's big trouble! You're a Tanokura!
We might not be as well off now
but we have our family pride to consider!
We can't have the wife of a Tanokura going out to do people's hair!
- It's shameful! - Why is it shameful?!
What is a family name without money?
It's not as if I want to steal or something...
As long as we're here we have to follow the rules!
Otherwise we have to leave.
I would if we could!
If it wasn't for Yuu I'd get a live-in job in town.
That's why I'm talking to you!
Be quiet!
You two aren't the only ones living here!
I'd like some money...
I asked Father but he told me to ask you.
Five yen will do...
What do you need it for?
Oshin needs soap
and some other things for writing letters and sewing.
We didn't bring all the things we need.
But we can't ask my sister-in-law for things.
She wants to do hair to have her own money.
She didn't mean any harm by her request.
I see... I understand.
I will ask Oshin how much she needs.
Thanks I'm sure she will be very happy.
You're pathetic... Your wife pushes you around.
You're no man!
Mother!
- Oshin. - Yes?
What do you need?
Why didn't you ask me instead of your husband?
We have given you a lot of things already.
We gave you old clothes and such
and you go and complain to Ryuzo about it.
Like we haven't done a thing for you!
She was just being considerate!
She couldn't ask you so she told me.
You want your own money? And you want to do people's hair?
Everyone will think we don't do enough for you!
In that case I will buy you anything you need!
I'm sorry... I'll be more mindful.
See the way she talks to me?
I told you not to ask her!
How else can we get money?
She holds the purse strings in the family.
You knew I'd get yelled at!
All you do is complain. I just wanted to help.
Then I will never complain to you again!
I'm sick of it all too!
Mother calls me the lowest of men
and all I ever hear from you are complaints!
I'm sick of everything!
It's looking more like a field now.
Your brother want wheat planted here.
Wheat?
We have to clear another field after this.
So we have to hurry.
Another one?
Yes he says he has more mouths to feed.
He's telling me to grow my own food?
It's not like the old days...
He can't collect as much rent from the sharecroppers.
I would rather die than work like this.
Is something the matter? You haven't said a thing all day.
Did you get scolded for doing my hair?
I've been worried...
I used to be a harlot...
I'm sure that's why you got into trouble.
It's nobody's business what you used to be.
I just get fed up living among strangers...
Your mother-in-law is a very strong woman.
Things must be very difficult for you.
I live with my in-laws too. I understand.
Kozo sold off his land to buy me out.
That's why he has to work as a farm laborer now.
I take the brunt of his family's wrath now...
But considering my past I can't say anything.
I'm just happy to be Kozo's wife.
If I were his mother and my son married a harlot
I'd be angry too.
That's why I can't talk back to her.
Just put yourself in your mother-in-law's place.
I'm sorry. I shouldn't be lecturing you.
You're right.
I'm a daughter of a poor sharecropper from Yamagata
so I had no dowry to offer.
My family can't help us out this time either.
A son of the Tanokura's could have married better...
I'm sure his mother was looking forward to that.
Then her son goes and marries someone like me.
I'm nothing but trouble.
No wonder she's upset.
I guess I'll have to put up with it.
It's better than starving.
That's right.
At least you two get to work together!
You should consider yourself lucky!
Thanks.
I'll stop feeling sorry for myself.
Let's get back to work!
I quit!
I refuse to work like this ever again!
No more!
Oshin could understand how Ryuzo felt.
But she also knew they had no other choice.
She worried about having more trouble with his family.
Translation: UTB Channel
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