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Carnation

小さく丸めた躯は今

Chisaku marumeta karada wa ima

My body, tiny and curled up, is right now

Week 3 "Passion" Episode 17

かなしみ隠し震えて

Kanashimi kakushi furuete

Trembling with hidden sorrows

Screenplay Watanabe Aya

Music Satō Naoki Musical Performance\h Face Music

Theme Song "Carnation" Sheena Ringo

命を表していろのね

Inochi o arawashite iro no ne

My life is represented by my color, isn't it

Cast

Ohara Itoko Ono Machiko

Ohara Chiyo Asau Yumi

重く濡らした瞼は今

Omoku nurashita mabuta wa ima

My eyelids, heavily soaked, are right now

Ohara Haru Shoji Terue

Yoshida Natsu Kuriyama Chiaki

Kinomoto Eisaku Kōmoto Masahiro

Masuya Kōkichi Thomas Ken

Yasuoka Tamae Hamada Mari Yasuoka Yaeko \h Tamaru Maki

よろこび映す日の為

Yorokobi utsusu hi no tame

Reflecting my rapture of this day

Yasuoka Kansuke Onoue Hiroyuki Ohara Shizuko \h Yagyū Miyu

Ohara Kyoko Maki Mei Ohara Mitsuko\h Yoshida Aoi Kioka Miyo \h Ichiki Iijima Junko

Sakamoto Kanaya Katsumi Okamura\h Kawano Tomohiro Kinomoto Satsuko \h Nishimura Ayako

心を育てているのね

Kokoro o sodatete iru no ne

That's how a heart is raised, isn't it

Yamaguchi Nakamura Daiki Tanaka\h Yuasa Takashi

Ohara Zensaku Kobayashi Kaoru

Showa 5 (1930)

Kinomoto Electrical Store

In the Summer of Showa 5...

...radio had come to the Kinomoto Electrical Store at last.

Kinomoto-san, thank you!

Yes!

Sir, thank you! I'll be going!

Get going! Go all out!

Yes!

Ah...

It's Kansuke.

Kansuke had graduated from middle school...

...and had started working at a cotton mill.

What are you so down about first thing in the morning?!

Ito-chan, g'morning.

Put some pep into it! Some pep!

Yeah.

The work was hard...

...so he dragged himself to the factory each morning with a miserable look on his face.

He still isn't putting any energy into it yet.

Work is like school.

Of course it's gonna be harsh.

I've been studying at the patch store for two years now.

No one has been hired beneath me yet...

...so I guess I'm still low man on the totem pole here.

Even so, I'm now just an ordinary underling.

But I had grown.

I could cut and finish the patches without even thinking.

Here!

Eh? It's sewn already?

Yes.

She's good at sewing. She's quick at her work.

No, no. Well, just watch.

Fool! Take a good look at this!

Whaa!

She'll have to redo it again.

Look, as expected, Ohara'll need to perforate it.

I've told you not to get in a rush and to be careful!

Yes... I'll redo it right away!

This tool is used to untie what's been sewn...

...and is called the perforation tool.

Oi! Ohara's perforation tool!

Yes.

Thank you! I'm sorry.

The feeling was that it was in my nature to just press ahead.

They all felt I would sew in a rush, fail...

...and then have to use the perforation tool.

Geh.

"Ohara's perforation tool," huh...

And... that's what they called it.

Good afternoon!

Is Kansuke around?

(Yeah. He's upstairs.)

(Upstairs?)

Ah! It's Taro!

Ah!

He's the spitting image of Taizō-niichan.

Isn't he?

Anyhow, I don't want to go the factory anymore.

I really hate it.

Look...

You're at the point where you're just feeling the most tired of it.

It was at that point that I had to overcome all sorts of things.

But I put up with it and got over it...

Are you listening?!

I am listening!

What is it?

Ito-chan, don't you know?

What?

The one in charge of me and my team leader...

...they're guys who really look like devils.

I do know about that!

There are guys who look like devils everywhere!

We're talking about you right now. You should be more...

Whaa! Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up!

I hate it and can't take it! I really, really, really don't want to go!

Just leave me alone already!

Oba-chan...

...I can't do anything for him.

Really?

Even so, well...

I wonder if he can quit on his own?

He'll calm down once Taizō-niichan scolds him some. He just doesn't have the guts.

But he hates it this much; maybe it'd be best just to let him quit.

Don't spoil him like that!

And after how hard it was getting a job at a huge factory like that.

I suppose. There's that, but...

Young Women's World

Ah, is that a "Young Women's World"?

Young Women's World

Yeah.

Is it this month's?

That's right. Want to see it?

I do! I do!

Young Women's World

Oh! Look at this. The skirt is so long.

That seems to be the fashion now.

The fashion?

Yeah. This month, lots of people have been wearing this skirt.

Ehh!

Whaa! This person's skirt is long, too.

It is, isn't it?

Yeah.

Taizō-niichan's wife, Yaeko-san, was plain and ordinary...

Yasuoka Yaeko

...but she was a surprisingly fashionable person...

...and would buy a "Young Women's World" each month and show it to me.

Ito-chan, please look at the shape of this person's hat.

Whaa...

That's the shape that's fashionable in Paris.

Ehh...

She knew all about Western clothes...

...and would teach me all sorts of things...

I loved those times when I got to chat with Yaeko-san.

What about you, Ito-chan?

Eh?

Won't you make Western clothes?

Ah...

You can sew patches, so you should be able to sew Western clothes.

That's right.

I could make Western clothes.

"You young whipper-snapper, take this!"

"Resolve yourself!"

"Take this!"

"And this! AH!"

From the start, rather than making patches with a sewing machine...

...my intention had been to begin making Western clothes.

"And now I'm going to stop you with my sword! Oh!"

I had forgotten that...

In the end, because they had all been put away for so long...

...they had completely faded.

While I had been busy chasing after my work every day...

...I had forgotten the entire point of it all.

I had wanted to make Western clothes.

Long ago, I would come here and just stare at it.

I was much happier then.

My dream...

...maybe it's gone cold...

Come see, come buy! Kinomoto Electrical Store!

Kinomoto Electrical Store

Ah! Ma'am, do you know about radios?

They're great, great! Take a look, take a look!

Natsu!

Ah!

Why are you wearing those Western clothes?

It's okay, no reason.

Where did you get those Western clothes?

I didn't get them, I decided to have them made.

You had them made?

Who by? Where at?

Shinsaibashi.

Shinsaibashi?

In Shinsaibashi, they've had some really good dressmaking stores there recently.

The other day I asked one of them to make something new for me again.

Why Western clothes like these?

I don't have time for "why this" and "why that". Excuse me.

That had been my dream!

My dream was for Western clothes!

While I was staring off into space...

...Natsu had gotten closer to Western clothes.

Argh! I have to make them!

I have to hurry and make Western clothes!

Stop that noise!

What's with all that flailing around?!

That's right...

Moreover, there was one really troublesome thing I had to get around...

...my Dad.

That Kinomoto, really!

That radio's nothing but a trick to bring in the customers.

Once those customers realize they've been made fools of...

...they'll all fly away.

Such jealously is unseemly.

Who's jealous? Jealous?!

I'm just talking about the Japanese soul here.

As usual, in the eyes of my Dad, Western clothes were the sworn enemy.

If I started making Western clothes again...

...I wasn't sure if he wouldn't get angry again.

What is it?

What should I do?

Even so, this was something I just couldn't give up on.

"Sigh..."

What is it you want to say?!

I see.

Ah... there's that!

Huh?

Have you given your father something you've sewn?

To my Dad?

Yeah.

Like what?

Western clothes.

Western clothes?

First off anyhow, you have to get your father to wear some.

If he tries them on himself and sees that they aren't all that bad...

...he just might give you his permission.

That's impossible!

My Dad won't wear Western clothes until he dies.

You don't know that. Especially if his own daughter has sewn them.

It's absolutely impossible.

My Dad'll say, "what's this?!" and then tear them all to pieces.

That won't happen.

Hmm...

Look Ito-chan...

...when you first saw Na-chan wearing Western clothes...

...and walking through the shopping district, she looked cool, didn't she?

Yeah.

To us women, whatever it is we want to start... takes courage.

Still... That'd be pretty cool, wouldn't it?

Yeah.

Do your best!

Yeah!

Yeah!

Yeah! Yeah!

Yeah!

Yeah! Right!

Yeah!

Yeah!

To Be Continued

Carnation

End

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