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Episode 234
[We now sell misozuke and kasuzuke fish.]
[And we also deliver to all areas.]
I've filled all our orders for today with this.
The economy must be really good for people
to be ordering kasuzuke sea bream!
Sea bream, shrimp and abalone kasuzuke
are all gift items for special occasions.
It's the season for gift giving now.
- These are for misozuke? - Yes.
Maybe it's a little too sweet.
They say it won't go with sake very well if it's too salty.
It's good! We can leave it like this.
If you say so.
We were able to get sea bream at a good price.
Such nice fillets.
Are you still at it?
You are overworking yourselves again!
Fish won't keep, so we have to get it done now.
You should be in bed!
Can I help?
It's okay. We only have a little more to do.
You work all day and all afternoon,
and you come home and work half the night.
Do you really have to...
Will you package the orders due out tomorrow?
I have the orders written there.
You and Hatsuko will both end up sick!
Just do one thing at a time.
It's not for you to worry!
Just study and help out with the housework.
Is this the misozuke for tomorrow?
That will do. The kasuzuke is underneath there.
Maybe it's all right for you,
but you're making Hatsuko work much too hard.
We should be thankful that we are busy.
We make preserved fish because people want them.
I remember you and Father used to make these
when I first came to live with you.
Your father and I used to think a lot
about ways of increasing our product line.
This brings back so many memories...
Let's work hard and build up our business to what it used to be!
We're almost there. Our profits keep going up.
I have an idea... It's colder now,
and people want to cook pot dishes at home.
So maybe we can make ready-to-cook pot dishes
with fish, vegetables and all the fixings.
We'll cut up the fish,
and for vegetables, we'll add some scallions,
edible chrysanthemums and Chinese cabbage,
so they can use it right away to make their pot dishes.
We can include tofu and konnyaku, too!
Yes. Pot dishes are big during the cold season.
And if it's pre-packaged, it'd be more convenient for people.
Let's start from tomorrow.
Yes!
You're just making more work for yourselves!
We have to put ourselves in our customers' shoes,
and make it more convenient for them.
Anybody can sell fish,
but with more competition out there,
new ideas become crucial. We wouldn't survive.
I give up!
Good morning, Oshin.
- Working hard as usual? - Yes. Good morning.
I have an unusual visitor. Drop by for some tea.
He came for special fish for his father-in-law's birthday.
I have it all ready for you.
I got you a really big sea bream, too.
Thank you for all your help.
You sure are good to your in-laws!
I don't do enough.
That's why I want to help celebrate his birthday.
Congratulations.
Kota is in line to inherit their family store.
They've just rebuilt their old location.
I hear your store is doing well, too.
Thanks to you and Hisa, I do fairly well.
Hitoshi is working in Tokyo now?
It must be hard to do everything yourself.
No.
Children all have to leave the nest one day.
With my husband gone, my job as his wife is done.
I'm ready to sit back and work for myself now.
The new times allow me to do things my way.
I want to enjoy myself now!
Oshin keeps coming up with new ideas.
She sells kasuzuke and misozuke fish that are cheap,
delicious and last long, so they're very popular.
I hear you sell a lot of that.
We used to preserve our leftover fish that way in the past.
So now I take special orders that we deliver all over.
I've been watching you for over 30 years now.
You had your difficult times, but I never heard you complain.
At last, your perseverance is finally paying off.
It's as you say. Your time has come.
If I can be of further help,
I'll be more than happy to help you out.
I want you to realize all your dreams from the past.
Live up to your possibilities.
Kota's words were heartwarming.
Oshin's grandmother had worked hard all her life.
Yet she never had white rice to eat.
Oshin had decided early on that her life
would not be like her grandmother's.
The old memories came flooding back...
All her dreams have not been fulfilled yet.
But it wasn't too late...
Oshin was full of thoughts as she drove home...
Finally you're home!
I was worried because you're so late.
Sorry, I was visiting Hisa.
We talked a lot about business, too.
We'd better start taking orders for New Year's fish and vegetables.
We have to secure our supplies, too.
Isn't it strange?
My letter came back, too. All stamped "Return to sender."
Did Hitoshi move?
It also says, "Forwarding address unknown."
I'm sure he would have told us if he moved.
I'm going to make a phone call.
What could've happened?
They say he quit his job 10 days ago.
He quit at the department store?
I asked what department he was working in.
They finally told me he worked in Deliveries.
He turned in his resignation and just stopped coming to work after that.
Why?
I asked, but they just said it was for personal reasons.
He was so happy to go to Tokyo.
I can see if he was fired, but why would he quit his job on his own?
Something probably happened,
but they wouldn't give me any details.
You know how he is.
He's not the type to back down from challenges.
But I can't believe he'd quit just like that...
Why don't you go to Tokyo and find out?
What's the use?
His old Navy friend would know.
Hitoshi is not a child anymore.
I'm sure he had his reasons for quitting.
It won't do any good for us to worry.
He will send us word soon enough.
Let's finish eating.
He's been out of work for 10 days now.
I wonder how he's managing.
I'm sure he can make it on his own.
That is why he quit his job, I'm sure.
If he can't make it on his own,
he'll never amount to much no matter what he does!
He left home saying he was going to carve his own path.
If he has the tenacity, he'll make it somehow.
I'm sure he plans to come home for New Year's.
I'm sure he'll come home.
Oshin had been in business for six months now.
It was now the beginning of 1951,
but there was still no word from Hitoshi.
He didn't tell you anything either?
No.
Mother wrote to me that Hitoshi had gone to Tokyo,
but Hitoshi never wrote to me at all.
I thought he was doing all right.
Here. Have more mochi.
I was looking forward to seeing him here during New Year's.
You think he means to stay away?
It's not like him to cause Mother to worry.
What if he's sick?
Otherwise, he would have written us.
Never mind Hitoshi.
I gave up on ever seeing him come home again,
when I let him go off to Tokyo.
He didn't want to sell fish and vegetables,
so why would he come back here?
I'm sure he is doing as he pleases.
Today is New Year's, so maybe he'll show up tomorrow, or the next day.
Let's play cards.
It's Hitoshi.
He's home!
Translation: UTB Channel
Thanks to Avallac'h and XrayMind at D-Addicts.