I still remember the day she left as if it were yesterday.
And then, you guys were born.
Even though I thought she wouldn't be able to bear children.
Yet even so, Hiroko was able to bear three strong children...
Heiwa Fansubs Presents "Ohisama" "The Sun"
Week 4 "Mom's Secret" (Episode 21)
Screenplay by: Okada Yoshikazu
Music: Watanabe Toshiyuki
Narrator: Wakao Ayako
Sudo Yoko: Inoue Mao
Tsutsui Ikuko: Mitsushima Hikari
Soma Machiko: Maiko
Sudo Shigeki: Nagayama Kento
- Saiki Shigeru - Umezawa Masayo
Nakahara Takeo
Murakami Kayo: Watanabe Eri
Kirino Fujiko: Watanabe Misako
Yoko.
Yes?
When you were born, Hiroko sent me a letter.
"I think I'll call her Yoko."
"Yoko of the Sun."
That seemed so like her.
I thought it was a good name.
Why...
Why did my mother choose that name for me?
Ah, that.
I was often telling her.
"You should be like the sun."
"Like the sun, which borrows strength from no one,"
"...become a woman with your own power to shine on everyone brightly."
"From here on, this will be an era where a woman can do anything."
That's...
But that's...
That's...
...what Mom said.
"Ohisama, without borrowing strength from anyone..."
"...uses its own power alone to shine, doesn't it?"
"A girl is the sun."
"The "Yo" in "Yoko" is from the "Yo" in "Taiyo." (Sun)
I see.
So that's it...
I was quite the good mother, too, wasn't I?
Yes.
My name, Kayo, is only written in katakana...
...but I wonder what sort of meaning it has?
Isn't it the "Kayo" from, "I've come (kayo) to eat again"?
I see...
Huh?!
Wait right there you!
Don't destroy this precious story like that! Hey!
What are you doing? That's our stock-in-trade!
- Our stock-in-trade! Kyaaa! - That's right!
The time has come for me to go home.
I need to be back before your grandfather returns.
I see.
Yoko.
You understand why you and I...
...cannot live together, right?
Yes.
But...
...I think of myself as your grandmother.
Always.
If ever there is a time in your life when...
...there's really no one you can depend upon...
...and there is something causing you problems...
...remember me then.
I will help you.
There will surely be at least one person out there...
...who will lend you their strength.
Yes.
But, only the once.
Yes.
- Stingy, huh? - That's true.
If I offered at any time, I feel she'll become a spoiled person.
So only once is best.
- I'm sorry. - I'm sorry.
Now that you understand.
Thank you very much.
You've come! Ah!
Something the matter?
No, no...
Azumino Girl's School teacher, Mochizuki-sensei, what have you come for today?
A box of your assorted, please.
Yes, yes! Mochizuki-sensei is buying one box of assorted!
Sure thing! Mochizuki-sensei, one box of assorted!
Shh!
Thank you for waiting.
25 sen please. (sen = 1/100 of a yen)
25 sen, huh?
Ah... Ah, wait...
You there!
What are you doing in a place like this? Hurry and come out!
I'm sorry!
- We're sorry! - We're sorry!
It's quite wrong of you to take side trips on your way back home.
What on earth were you thinking!?
'Sorry' won't cover this.
I'm sorry.
Well, I'll go to the Principal about this immediately.
It was I who asked them to guide me here.
And who are you?
I am late in telling you. I am Sudo Yoko's Grandmother.
Eh?
Ah... I'm the Azumino Girl's School sewing teacher, Mochizuki.
My, you must be the Mochizuki-sensei she spoke about.
I heard a great deal about you from the letters Yoko wrote.
That Yoko's sewing is...
...so poor she felt she was being a bother for the Sensei.
Yes, well...
But, she also wrote that while she was poor at it...
...that you were her favorite Sensei and that she admires you.
She wrote in her letter that when she grows up...
...she hopes to become a teacher just like you.
Oh my, is that right?
Because it usually isn't possible for me...
...to leave Tokyo and see my granddaughter and her friends...
...it was thus that I had her bring me here during her return from school.
I am very sorry. Please, please forgive me.
Ah, no. If that's the case, then there's not a problem.
Well then, please excuse me.
I am very sorry.
Thank you very much.
You!
Are you that poor at sewing?
Ah, no... not much.
She's poor at it.
She's downright terrible at it.
No...
How unpleasant, geez...
Truly unpleasant.
I'm sorry.
That was something you didn't have to favor me at.
Eh?
Please take care.
Be healthy, Yoko.
Yes!
And the rest of you, too.
- Yes. - Thank you very much.
Let's go.
Goodbye, Grandmother!
- You have a nice grandmother, don't you? - Yes.
But, isn't there that, Yoko?
Huh? "That"?
Didn't she say, "I'll only help you one time"?
"One time only."
Yes.
Didn't you just use that up earlier?
Eh?
Eh?!
That's true. Such a waste!
Eh... No way...
So you'll be starting clean.
Eh?! Wasn't that just a bonus?
"Yes, that had just been a bonus."
"Later on, there was something I would need help from my Grandmother about."
"But that's a story for much later."
She's a good child, isn't she?
Yes she is, ma'am.
Geez! Don't just suddenly open it!
You just fixed my uniform the other day...
...but it's ripped again.
Yoko, I guess you really are poor at sewing.
- That's okay. - Huh?
It's okay.
It can't be helped if I'm poor at sewing.
Huh?
I'll do it.
More importantly, Yoko.
What is it?
About that promise you made me the other day?
Eh?
That you'd be on my side.
Right?
Yes...
Then... I'll ask for it right now.
Right now?
"To Be Continued"
- C'mon, hurry! - Eh? Ah...
"Ohisama" "Sakuho Villiage's Shirokoma Pond"