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Episode 172
If the weather allowed the fishing fleet out to sea,
Oshin had to peddle her fish in the neighboring area with Yuu on her cart.
Oshin sold her fish at a low price,
but she made that up by selling in volume.
She was fast developing a steady clientèle.
Thank you!
What would be good for a sick person?
You must be worried. How about kisu fish?
Here. I'll give you these for your sick grandma.
You can't give away fish for nothing!
My grandmother is dead, so I can't care for her.
I'm doing this in her memory.
She's so nice. Go on and take it.
Thank you. If you insist.
Then please add three more mackerel.
Thank you.
- Was it 20 sen? - That's right.
Thank you! Come again!
I'm having guests, so I'll need sea bream and lobster.
You should serve them at least that!
But they're so expensive!
I'll give you a deal. Just tell me what your budget is.
I'll let you know.
I could help you cook for your guests, too.
That would be great!
I'll have to ask you to help me for our memorial service, too.
Just let me know what I can do to help.
We'll be waiting.
Let's go out farther today.
Take care!
You were out late again today.
I had to help one of my customers move.
What a thing to do!
Those people I gave free fish to are some of my best customers now.
That's why I enjoy helping them.
You don't have to do all that just because they buy from you!
You'll end up getting sick if you overwork yourself!
I have to be good to my customers.
A storm is coming.
There will be no fish tomorrow.
I have to take the day off?
When it storms, the peddlers rest. You can take it easy.
I'll take all the sardines, and all the sea bream!
- All of them? - Oshin...
You can't sell all this in one day!
It's all right.
Smells good. What is it?
I'm cooking sardines to preserve them.
What will you do with all that?
I'll sell them.
You're changing jobs to selling cooked fish?
I can't stay home every time we have a storm.
I'm going to take this and sell it.
This sea bream, too?
I'm preparing them in miso, so that they'll last.
After going three days without any fish, people will be so happy!
I've never eaten it in miso before...
You eat delicious fish all year round.
Up in the northeast,
we only got salted fish or dried fish in the mountains,
we only got to eat that once or twice a year.
Misozuke fish was a real treat!
I guess you're only used to fresh fish.
I guess so...
I like it here. I want to live here forever.
That's why I have to take good care of my customers!
They'll be my assets for life.
Oshin's dream was to open a fish store here.
She'd bring Ryuzo here to live as a family again.
The hot summer passed, and it was now fall.
Oshin never took a day off from her work.
She and Yuu peddled fish from her pushcart.
That year, in 1926, the Taisho Emperor passed on.
The new era of Showa had begun.
Oshin had been in Ise over a year now.
You were out so late...
I had to help cook for a wedding.
You seem very well.
Kota!
He's been waiting here for you two to return.
You haven't changed at all!
Do you remember me?
Sure you do.
Are you going back to Sakata?
I haven't been back there in a while.
I'm too busy traveling here and there.
Thank you for coming to see us here.
I'd been worried about you.
But I didn't have time to come out here.
We have no way of getting in touch with you!
We can't even write to you!
I'm so sorry.
Are you still on the run?
No. The labor movement has been made legal.
But things have changed.
It used to be that the sharecroppers would negotiate
with the landowners to lower rents.
But now, the landowners want to negotiate in order to raise the rents.
They employ thugs to drive the sharecroppers out.
They also go to the courts in order to prevent
the sharecroppers from planting rice. It's all very complicated...
It must be rough on you...
The economy is bad, so the landowners are hurting.
The sharecropper issue has been bogged down.
I guess you're still hanging in there.
I owe everything to you both.
No. It's the strength of her spirit that's helped her.
She doesn't just peddle fish.
She's gotten through to the hearts of her customers.
She does what nobody else can do.
That's why she has so many regular customers.
Her competitors used to complain, but now they all respect her.
She sure is business-minded!
I'm glad. I knew you would help her.
I haven't done a thing!
She pays me for room and board,
and I sell fish to her at the same rate as everyone else.
She has allowed me to just concentrate on my business.
I've become a full-fledged fish peddler.
Now I feel much better.
I wouldn't have been able to just stand by
and watch you feed all those drunks in Sakata.
It's about time she opened her own fish store.
She doesn't have to push a cart around anymore.
I feel sorry for Yuu. Out in the cold wind!
I'm not ready to do that yet.
I can loan you the money to open a shop.
You have a lot of regular customers.
They would come to your shop! They all trust you.
If my aunt thinks you can do it,
you can safely open up your own store.
Then you can ask your husband to come here.
That's right.
A couple shouldn't live apart. It's not good for Yuu.
That's why I had you come out here.
I would've fulfilled my responsibility to you
if I get the three of you back as a family.
Then I won't have to worry about you.
I'd better be going. I have a train to catch.
You have to leave now?
I just stopped by to see you.
Please take good care of them.
I might have to go underground again.
Even if I don't see you again, I'll be thinking of you.
I hope you and Tanokura can get back together soon.
About Mrs. Okayo...
She's doing fine as the young mistress of Kaga-ya.
It's as it should be.
I'm sure I'll get to see you again...
That fool! What can he do all by himself?
He's out there sacrificing himself for others!
And all for the movement!
That night, Oshin wrote a letter to Ryuzo.
She felt that getting back with Ryuzo
was a way in which she could repay Kota's love for her.
Translation: UTB Channel
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