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Episode 194
Here you go.
Thank you.
You don't have to do so much.
I finished the house work. There's nothing else to do.
You sure do work hard.
I have it easier here than I did back home.
There, I always had a baby on my back.
I know what that's like... The baby can get very heavy.
I remember I dropped the baby on my back once
when I leaned over to wash the diapers.
I'm the daughter of a Yamagata sharecropper, too.
I was sent out to work at age seven.
You, too?
Yes. I didn't even get to go to school.
You remind me of myself when I was a child.
I thought people's lives were better now...
But I guess sharecroppers in the northeast still have it bad.
- Welcome home! - I'm home!
Welcome home.
I went shopping on my way back from making deliveries.
- Where's Hitoshi and Nozomi? - They're out playing.
- Go and get them. - Okay.
I bought things for Hatsuko, too.
School bags!
And they match. Look inside.
- Pencil box! - Pencil and erasers!
- And crayons! - Notebooks, too!
- They're all the same. - So you won't fight.
Have your mother put names on all your things,
- so you don't get them mixed up. - Mother, please do it tonight.
Okay.
Hatsuko, I got you a red pencil box.
That's pretty. I really get to go to school?
Yes. We made arrangements.
I feel bad... I should be working.
The law says kids have to go to school.
Your biggest job is to do well in school.
- I'm home. - Welcome home.
- I'm home.
- These are our school bags. - Our sister got one, too.
Hatsuko is going to school, too?
Of course! She will be in the fourth grade.
I'll get you new things for middle school later.
Can you get in?
I don't know... But if I fail, I'll just sell fish.
Don't be silly! If you can't get into middle school,
you won't be able to go on to high school or college!
You can't be a great man without a college education.
I know that,
but I only have five more days before my entrance exams.
- I'll just see how it goes. - You're too carefree.
Leave him alone...
College isn't everything. If he should fail,
we'll figure something out that's suited for him.
Each of us has a path waiting for us.
No use trying to make him into something he's not meant for.
You're spoiling him!
I'd better go watch the store.
Take some snacks into Yuu and have yours, too.
Okay.
That money we'd been saving for Yuu...
went towards getting Hatsuko.
We'll need school tuition for the kids when they start school.
Even if Yuu gets in, he might not have a new uniform to wear.
Don't let the kids hear you!
They're asleep.
We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
We've been in this town for a long time.
We can buy things on credit now that they know us.
So we'll manage.
It sure takes a long time to save up money...
Oh, come on...
We should be grateful that we're surviving as a family.
That's true... Hatsuko is a good girl, too.
It's as if our Ai has come back to us in her form.
That's right... We're lucky to have fine children.
Don't forget to put names on Nozomi's and Hitoshi's things.
- Ryuzo... - Yes?
What last name should we use for Nozomi?
Hitoshi is a Tanokura, but Nozomi is a Yashiro.
We've been raising Nozomi as our very own until now...
And Nozomi has no idea that we're not his real parents.
But if he sees that his last name is different,
he is bound to realize it.
Just use our Tanokura name.
What about school records? Are we going to lie to them?
Just talk to the teachers.
He is bound to find out soon enough.
They're the same age, but born in a different month.
We can't hide the family registry forever.
That's why we should have just adopted him!
But Nozomi is the only heir to the Yashiro family!
He has to take over the Kaga-ya business.
It's our job to make sure that happens.
Then what are we going to do?
You want him to go to school as Yashiro Nozomi?
That would break his heart!
He's too young to face that problem.
He thinks of us as his real parents.
If he finds out...
Let's keep it a secret until he's older.
The school will understand!
Let me think it over.
What is this? Squid sashimi and what else?
That says two yellowtail.
Can't you write neater?
I'm in a rush when taking orders.
You can't expect perfect penmanship.
When are you going to write our names on our things?
You lied to us!
You know I'm busy!
I'll have the names on them before school starts.
Go play outside and don't bother your brother!
Okay...
Don't get edgy about Yuu's entrance exam.
Excuse me.
Your mother wants you to have these.
Thanks.
She's worried about your exam tomorrow.
If I fail, I can't ever come home again...
Why not?
You're lucky... Nobody pressures you.
But Mother took such pains to raise me...
When I think about that, I can't let her down.
I have to pass my entrance exams.
I have it rough, too!
Can't you sleep?
No use worrying about Yuu's exams tomorrow.
I hear water running...
What is it?
Hatsuko!
- What are you doing?! - What's wrong?
Hatsuko!
I'm sorry... Praying like this makes wishes come true.
- Don't be silly! - We do this back home.
When my father got sick, my mother prayed for him like this.
What are you praying for?
I want Yuu to pass his entrance exams.
It's just a superstition!
Hurry and change.
I passed!
You passed?
I owe it all to your prayers.
Thank you.
I have this sea bream all ready for a celebration!
I'm so glad!
Me, too!
That night, Oshin wrote in the children's names on their school things.
Translation: UTB Channel
Thanks to Avallac'h and XrayMind at D-Addicts.