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Episode 135
Good morning.
Excuse me for eating before you.
Thank you for the meal.
We need all the wheat harvested today.
There is about three gen worth still left.
I'll help you after lunch.
We'll be going now.
Is it all right between Mother and Oshin?
She hasn't spoken a word to Oshin in days.
- It's not for you to worry about. - But it's hard on me.
Living under the same roof like this.
It's nothing new.
It's worse than before. I'm worried.
- Maybe you should speak to Oshin. - About what?
Mother and Atsuko are both very worried.
That's silly.
But it's true about having two babies
under one roof being very unlucky.
When I was small, two sisters in my
neighborhood came home to give birth.
The one born two or three days afterwards died.
It's no superstition!
Many babies die soon after birth,
even if two of them were born together.
I know, but I don't blame Atsuko and Mother for being fearful.
Oshin should know about it.
She doesn't know about it, so she thinks it's just fine
that she and Atsuko can have their babies here.
Just leave them alone.
Don't forget that you're the eldest son's wife.
I told you when you came here as a bride...
Hear not, see not, and never speak out!
It will only cause trouble within the family.
Don't take anybody's side.
Do you understand?
What's going on?
You're making your husband late! It just puts our work behind.
Heikichi is crying again. Yuu is such a good boy,
but Heikichi cries too much for a boy.
He will never amount to much.
Atsuko is coming today.
Get some kobuna fish or dojo for her.
She needs to eat bones and all for the baby.
My sister-in-law is being too stingy.
You are with child. You need more than a single rice ball!
Besides, you're doing heavy labor.
She's having a hard time, too.
Even though she is in charge of the kitchen,
your mother watches her like a hawk.
She is probably not getting much food money to work with.
You need food for yourself and the baby!
I'm fine! At least it's rice I get.
My mother worked harder, and she only got daikon gruel to eat.
Sometimes she would go without so that the kids could eat.
Still, she had healthy babies, and she never got sick.
I can't complain.
- Yes, but... - Never mind.
Don't you dare complain to them.
That would just cause me to have a harder time!
And your mother has been in a terrible mood lately.
I can't think of what I did wrong...
I'm sorry... I promised you I would stop complaining.
I told you that I'll do my best to be a Tanokura!
I should be grateful that I'm not starving,
and that I'm allowed to have my baby here.
Yuu is asleep.
Sorry for having you babysit. But I'm making dojo nabe for you.
I'm sure you don't get good food at your house.
So eat heartily when you're here!
Look! Dojo!
I guess we'll get dojo tonight.
Remember back in Tokyo before we had our first baby?
Gen would buy dojo for you.
I guess Tsuneko is being nice to you.
Let me do the wash.
You are tired, and you're pregnant, too.
If I let you do it, I will get yelled at.
I wish I could help you...
I'm just glad you feel that way.
What a rare treat!
The dojo is for Atsuko. She is expecting.
I'd feel badly eating this all by myself.
It is for the baby you are carrying.
We get dried fish and cooked vegetables?
Men shouldn't complain about food!
I'm done.
Thank you for dinner.
Will you feed Oshin some dojo, too?
She is pregnant, too.
Why treat her any differently from Atsuko?
Don't...
All she does is lounge around all day.
While Oshin works all day long!
Why does she get dojo, and Oshin only gets this?
Why, Tsuneko?!
What are you saying to Tsuneko?
Atsuko and Oshin are not the same!
Atsuko has to be cared for well,
or we will lose face to the family she is married into.
That's why Tsuneko...
You don't care what happens to one of our own?!
Why are you shouting about some dojo?
I just want my sister-in-law to be more considerate about Oshin, too.
Don't complain to Tsuneko. As I told you,
if Oshin plans to have her baby here,
we won't lift a hand to help her.
And you agreed.
If you are so worried for her,
let her go home to Yamagata to have her baby!
Atsuko will be coming here more often before she is due,
so don't say any more about it.
Maybe you both can go elsewhere...
Mother!
Please don't!
I'm so disappointed in Ryuzo...
He's letting some worthless woman lead him around by the nose,
and he yells at his mother? It's too pathetic.
Good morning.
Oshin.
Let me give you some advice.
You'd be better off going home to Yamagata to have your baby.
I can't bear to see how you are treated here.
That's why I'm saying this to you.
Thank you, but I've had worse trouble as a child.
If you stay here, Mother will kill you.
For the first 10 years of my marriage,
I had it worse than you.
That's why I wasn't shocked to see Mother treating you so harshly.
But this time is different.
There is an old belief in these parts
about two babies being born at the same time under one roof.
They say one always dies.
Mother is very concerned about that.
Father and Ryuzo consider it just an old superstition.
But Mother and Atsuko feel differently.
So that's why she isn't speaking to me.
I hate having to tell you this.
But I feel so sorry for you. That's why I'm telling you this.
- It's just an old superstition! - Maybe so,
but I'm more concerned about how Mother is taking all this.
She hates you to begin with,
and she'll just kill you with her venom.
- She wouldn't...! - You won't get to eat much,
and you'll never get time off from work in the fields.
The baby within you won't grow much.
And you'll get sick. That's just like being killed.
I would like to help you,
but I'm just a bride. I have no right to interfere.
I don't pay much heed to superstitions,
but I'm still a Tanokura. I'm worried about Mother,
because she really does believe in superstitions.
Just keep that in mind.
Oshin wanted to laugh it off. But she could tell that
there was a lot of truth in what Tsuneko had told her.
It sent a chill up her spine.
Translation: UTB Channel
Thanks to Avallac'h and XrayMind at D-Addicts.