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Episode 139
Tanokura
Grandma...
So this is the place!
It's still here.
The interior seems different, but this gate is the same.
Want to stop in?
Why would I want to see them?
We haven't been able to meet with anyone from your past so far.
Now that we have found the Tanokura house...
Let's visit!
I have no good memories of this place.
And I haven't had dealings with them in years.
I'm sure nobody here would want to remember me either...
Why not?
To the Tanokura family I was a bad bride.
Oh, come on!
You were harassed by your mother-in-law!
I was treated badly due to my own faults.
Even Tsuneko, the eldest son's wife,
had to put up with a lot.
Then and only then, was she accepted by them.
I guess the times have really changed...
I had wanted to be a good bride, too.
It was the only way I could ever be accepted.
Who's that?
I don't know, I can't remember.
You know him?
That is Sataro, the eldest son's son.
He was about then when I last saw him.
He must be over 70 now.
He didn't seem to recognize you.
- He was just a boy then. - Shall I talk to him?
No! I'll just keep the memories to myself.
I didn't come to reminisce with anyone about he past.
I'm getting confused...
I thought I knew the purpose of this journey.
But there seems to be nothing but bad memories.
Why bother rehashing them all now? You are happy now.
I seem happy to you?
This is the brook where Osawa tried to drown herself!
It seems deep... How did she manage to survive?
It wasn't just her... All farmers' wives back then
contemplated suicide, at one time or another.
It wasn't just in Yamagata that the women suffered.
Did you ever think of dying?
I didn't want to give them the satisfaction of my dying!
I was determined to live, and have my baby.
To die is to lose...
And I had Yuu to think about, too.
I didn't want to leave him behind, so I never even considered it.
I was all alone, but I hung in there.
I believed that I would be accepted
as a Tanokura wife once I had my baby there.
But I had to keep working in the fields
up to the very last minute. My stomach was so big,
and I'd be so exhausted when I got home each night.
I didn't even have the strength to walk.
You're so pathetic...
Go inside and rest. You must've had a hard day.
Okay?
Oshin!
Your father and Yuu are bathing. Go join them.
What are you doing there?
In her condition, weeding is too much of a chore.
Don't be spoiling her!
In the old days... Farmers' wives would just sleep
on a mat by the door with their clothes on.
We all worked until the time we gave birth!
I'm not just being mean to Oshin.
At least we have a well.
Other farmers' wives have to get water from the streams.
Oshin does no kitchen work.
And she gets to sleep on tatami mats.
She doesn't stay up and sew all night either.
We always did all our sewing in the evenings.
That is how we got accepted as a family member.
We took our babies to the fields with us.
She doesn't do half the work we all did.
There is no reason for her to be this tired.
She just doesn't want to work.
Are you listening to my mother?
She never listens to me... Just leave her alone!
- Oshin! - Let her be!
You will catch a cold like that! Get up and take your bath.
Then you can have your dinner.
I feel so tired... Am I ill?
It's just because you're so big.
The midwife says everything is fine.
Just hang on for a couple of more months.
It's not easy having a baby, is it?
Who ever said it was easy?
Get up!
Oshin.
Don't you feel well?
I'm sorry... I fell asleep.
- You're tired? - I'm all right.
She can't work anymore. She is exhausted!
Let her rest.
We will hire someone to fill her place.
Having a baby isn't an illness! One shouldn't be in bed for it.
Then let Atsuko do as Oshin does.
Father!
Your mother spoils you!
Atsuko belongs to another family.
Oshin is just one of our sons' wives.
They're both pregnant! And I say she rests!
Oshin.
Yes?
You won't have to work in the fields anymore.
Just rest and have a healthy baby. There is no need to mind anyone.
One's first baby can be troublesome.
But it's her second! Nobody has to rest like that.
She should have gone back to her own home.
I'm not picking on Oshin.
All wives work right up to the day of delivery.
Tsuneko and I both had to do that.
So why do you have to spoil Oshin?
Set her straight!
Going to bed?
Mother and Tsuneko will stay up and sew.
I don't know what my father said,
but try to cooperate with my mother and persevere.
I'm sick of all this trouble...
Oshin knew what Ryuzo was trying to say.
She knew she couldn't stay home and rest.
She couldn't hate Ryuzo. It was hard for him, too.
Oshin felt badly to be placed in this situation.
Translation: UTB Channel
Thanks to Avallac'h and XrayMind at D-Addicts.