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Episode 124
1923 had brought many changes to Oshin.
Now in Saga she celebrated the New Year of 1924.
A postcard from Taka brought cheer
to her otherwise unhappy life.
She decided to return to Tokyo in March
to work for Taka in her new shop.
Oshin...
It's the New Year. Cheer up!
Mother is worrying about you being so unfriendly.
Can't you try a little harder?
She's hard on you because you're always sulking.
I have to listen to her complain too.
I'm not sulking.
Then come have a drink with everybody.
Your sister is here. It's best if I stayed away.
This is what I mean. That's why they're upset with you.
If you think that you're disliked try to get people to like you.
What more can I do?
I want to be liked and live happily too.
I was willing to do anything to get your mother to like me...
But nothing works.
It's your duty as my wife to try harder.
If this rift gets any greater you will suffer more!
That's why I'm telling this to you now.
Don't worry about it. I don't mind.
What do you mean you don't mind?
As long as you think like that
you'll never get along with my mother!
I can't stand it!
You're always sulking...
I can't blame my mother for getting angry.
I've had enough of this!
If you refuse to listen
I don't care what you do with yourself!
Wait...
You really plan on staying here?
I've told you.
Please think it over.
I'm betting on my success with the reclaimed land.
Don't bring it up again!
- You'd better stop. - It's all right.
What about you Atsuko?
Ryu is back.
I need a separate room!
- The attic will do. - What's wrong?
I want to be alone. I'm sick of Oshin!
Ryuzo.
I never realized she was like that...
What are you saying?
A couple can't live separately under one roof!
Oshin won't even try to understand how I feel.
She just presses for her own way! I'm tired of it.
Don't say that...
If you forsake her what will happen to her?
She only has you to lean on.
Talk it over with her.
You can't talk to her!
You married her because you loved her!
Even love can fade with time.
He has finally realized what she is really like.
We have extra rooms. You don't need to stay in the attic.
You can have the room next to ours.
Okiyo.
I knew this would happen one day.
Poor Ryu...
You married the wrong woman. That's why you've lost everything.
She made him build that factory and everything.
It's all Oshin's fault!
It's not too late. Divorce her!
That's best if you plan on staying here.
Marry a Saga woman!
Even Tsuneko...
I didn't like her at first but she patiently obeyed me.
Not like Oshin!
I know a lot of single girls you could meet!
Stop it! I won't allow him to throw Oshin out!
But the marriage is over if he wants to keep separate rooms.
It's best to get it over quickly.
I didn't say I wanted to divorce her.
She's Yuu's mother! I couldn't do that.
I can raise Yuu for you!
It's just that she unnerves me every time I see her.
You still have feelings for a woman like that?
She's good inside... But she's a little stubborn.
If we sleep separately she'll come around.
Too bad I was hoping you had finally opened your eyes.
Never mind...
Maybe Oshin will leave on her own.
Oshin...
I'm taking Ryuzo's bedding out.
He will be sleeping in the room next to mine.
He says he doesn't want to see your face.
I guess he's had enough of you complaining every time he see you.
I'll do it.
If you want to leave I won't stop you.
It had finally come to this.
If Ryuzo had drifted so far away from her
she no longer had any reason to stay here.
She wanted to leave that very instant.
Fuji Kayo Taka Ken and Kota's faces appeared before her...
And she missed them all.
But there was no one she could turn to now.
But in March Taka will open her new salon.
She kept telling herself that.
All she had to do was wait until spring.
She just had to bear it until then.
Mother... I won't give up.
In the spring I'm going to Tokyo. I only have to wait until spring.
Just until spring...
This headstone seems awfully neglected.
Gen had worked for the Tanokura's all his life.
He never married and he had no family.
Mrs. Tanokura built this grave for him.
No one remembers him.
And I haven't been here in 60 years.
I used to come here a lot when I lived here.
I'd cry thinking how I could've used
his support during my hard times.
That's not like you at all. You were liked wherever you went.
At Kaga-ya and at Taka's salon too.
I guess that mother-in-law was pretty terrible.
Why didn't you try to get her to understand you?
That's how you always handle matters.
Back then a bride couldn't talk back to her mother-in-law.
That's silly!
That's how things were.
Everyone accepted it and we all tried to bear it.
Come to think of it maybe it was my fault.
I knew she would be against our marriage
but we got married anyway so no wonder she hated me.
I should have known.
I didn't have to get so upset about it.
But you persevered.
I wanted to come back to Tokyo. That desire kept me going
and others disliked me more for my attitude.
I must have been pretty bad...
I guess you were both pretty bad. Both of you were bickering.
I guess that's how it is with one's in-laws.
I pity the man caught between his wife and his mother.
Both sides would complain to him.
I think your grandfather had it the worst.
I guess so...
It's bad when your wife and mother are always fighting one another.
That's why I never gave any of my daughters-in-law a hard time.
You never do complain to Aunt Michiko.
I guess all your hard times weren't wasted.
But they all complained about me anyway.
And I could relate to how Mrs. Tanokura felt for the first time.
Gen...
Remember the times I'd come and talk to you here?
It's a drowning!
- Where?! - This way.
A suicide!
Sawa...
Sawa! Sawa! Why did you do this?!
Sawa!
Sawa! Why?!
She's come to!
Oshin could understand how Sawa felt...
If Oshin hadn't had the hope of leaving this place for Tokyo
she might have done the same thing.
Sawa!
Translation: UTB Channel
Thanks to Avallac'h and XrayMind at D-Addicts.