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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 4 "Pride" Episode 22

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

重く濡らした瞼は今

Omoku nurashita mabuta wa ima

My eyelids, heavily soaked, are right now

Ohara Chiyo Asau Yumi

Ohara Haru Shoji Terue

Kinomoto Eisaku Kōmoto Masahiro

Nakamura Harutarō Koizumi Kōtarō

よろこび映す日の為

Yorokobi utsusu hi no tame

Reflecting my rapture of this day

Yasuoka Tamae Yasuoka Tamae Yasuoka Yaeko \h Tamaru Maki

Yasuoka Kansuke Onoue Hiroyuki Ohara Shizuko \h Yagyū Miyu

Ohara Kyoko Maki Mei Ohara Mitsuko \h Yoshida Aoi

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

Negishi Ryōko Zaizen Naomi

Ohara Zensaku Kobayashi Kaoru

Good afternoon.

Let's see... Have we met before?

Kinomoto...

Kinomoto!

Huh?

Ah! Hello there, Sensei! I'm Kinomoto.

From Kishiwada?!

Yeah.

Ah, this is the owner of Ohara's Dry-goods store. We were under your care the other day.

Please forgive me for not realizing it.

What brings you two out to Shinsaibashi today?

Ah. Zen-chan here said, "Take me to where Sensei is, you fool!"

Sensei!

I...

...have a request to make of you today, so I've come out from Kishiwada.

Could you make time for me?

I'll even do this!

Are you ready to order?

Is that coffee over there? The black stuff?

That's right.

What sort of taste does it have?

Taste?

It has a bitter taste.

Bitter?

Is it drinkable?

Dunno... It must be drinkable though. Everyone is drinking it.

Well then, coffee.

Certainly.

Good afternoon.

Welcome.

Ah, thank you for waiting. I'm very sorry.

No, no.

Thank you for waiting.

Oh...

Well...

...about my request, Sensei.

Yes.

Can you teach my daughter...

...about dressmaking?

If it is that, I have already spoken to Itoko-san about this...

...but I am, to the end, just a Lecturer on sewing machines here.

I know that!

Sensei, you must have plenty of reasons and viewpoints for doing that.

So of course...

...it's my intention to pay you for her courses.

No, no...

...this may be an exaggerated way of asking you...

...but I've resolved myself to come up here and make this request.

It's a pathetic story...

...but my kimono dry-goods store business has no future.

As they say, this is the age of Western clothes.

I could tell you that Itoko...

...is a daughter of haphazard momentum and horsepower.

That may be so...

...but she hasn't changed her mind about wanting to make Western clothing...

...for even one day since she was ten.

She whole-heartedly memorized how to use a sewing machine...

...in the three years she was at a patch store and became fully-fledged at it.

To be honest, there were times when...

...I was just a stubborn dry-goods father to her.

But...

...I've gradually given in to her.

From here on, I think I'll take her side...

...and help her in her dream of making Western clothes.

However...

...there are no Senseis like you for her...

...in either Kishiwada or Shinsaibashi.

Well, Itoko would probably do whatever she could as she has since long ago.

But without a Sensei...

...she won't be able to learn much.

I think she should be who she is.

As her parent, this is the one thing I can do for her.

Even if it takes selling everything in my home for your fee...

...I'll give it all to you to teach her.

That's it. No...

That's not all I can do, Sensei!

Please teach dressmaking to my daughter...

Please, please wait a moment!

Could it be that you are going to kneel down on the ground?

Yes!

That's not... Please don't!

Hurry, and sit it the chair.

Hurry, hurry!

Ah... well.

Ah, that was a shock.

That's the first time someone's kneeled on the ground to me...

Ah, really?

Well, as a businessman, I'm constantly doing that.

Just the other day, while I had my head on the ground...

...I was stepped on by getas who were entering the 2 main-line here.

I wouldn't like that...

Still, there's that, Sensei.

This coffee is delicious.

About my fee.

Ah!

Please listen to my request.

Kogare kogarerya hi-tomo naru Pining away, pining away, the fire goes on

At that late at night...

...Dad and Kinomoto-san got drunk on the way home.

Tenamon'ya nai ka nai ka Dōtonbori yo It's not Tenamon-ya or Dōtonbori either

Just lookin' at it, it was all black.

Yet even so...

Though we had been sleeping...

...he woke us up and, for some unknown reason told us, 'coffee is delicious'...

...and 'I'll let you drink it someday.'

It was a little bitter, but...

...it wasn't bad at all.

No way!

It's true.

Kansuke was fired from the factory?

Yeah.

Tamae-san dropped by the other day to tell us.

This depression is really scary.

It's terrible to be fired from such a large factory like that.

Ehh...

Ehh...

It's this depression...

Nothing we can do, nothing we can do.

And then, a customer of mine said, "this is just in time..."

...and introduced him to a new place yesterday.

Kashiya - confectionery shop

Kashiya - confectionery shop

That's right. The owner has a bad case of palsy in his feet...

...so he's been looking for a young assistant.

Thanks! Thanks!

Come again!

Ito-chan!

What's this about?

You can tell just by looking.

Yasuoka Kansuke

I'm in the Kashiya business.

Long ago, you used to swipe stuff...

...and cause trouble for this store.

Aren't you ashamed about tending the store for that same man now?

Well... When I apologized to him...

...that man cried and shook my hand in gratitude, saying...

"...It would be great if you could help me out this year..."

I thought...

...this was how I could atone to the guy, too.

Hmm...

I like this place a whole lot better than the factory.

Since it was by mutual agreement, I was really happy to be fired.

I'm home!

Welcome home.

Noh, huh?

What do they find so interesting about that?

There sure are a lots of people with free time in this world.

Ah...

How is Kansuke-chan doing?

That fool got himself installed at a Kashiya in no time.

A Kashiya?

I'm worried he's lost it.

A fool'll be a fool.

What are you feeling depressed about?

Nothing.

I'm just irritated!

You're not the one who should be irritated.

Eh?

You caused this.

What is it?

And you didn't tell me anything about it.

Tell you?

Tell you what?

Don't play dumb!

I don't like having to put a roof over such a disagreeable woman as that.

What are you talking about?!

Ah... That's right, Itoko.

Huh?

Your father said...

"...when she comes back, send her upstairs." To give your greetings.

My greetings?

Why do I have to greet one of his Noh chant students?

She's no ordinary pupil.

She's your sewing machine Sensei.

Eh?

Sewing machine Sensei...

Negishi-sensei?!

Sode sasu wa With her pointed sleeves

Amatsuotome no The Imperial maiden

Amatsuotome no The Imperial maiden

Kinugasa Kinugasa...

I'm very grateful.

Once finished with the classroom in Shinsaibashi this month...

...I am to start teaching again in Tokyo next month.

You're returning to Tokyo?

Yes.

I see...

But...

...before I return to Tokyo, I received a one week holiday from my company.

Ah...

While living here for that one week...

...I can teach you about dressmaking.

Huh?!

In exchange...

...your father will teach me Noh chanting.

Eh? Why... Why would he do such a thing...?

Let's not talk about the details.

This is the arrangement your father and I have made.

No, I...

I... I'll really do my best! Thank you!

Please don't go easy on me!

Sensei, please teach me everything!

I'll do whatever and anything!

Thank you!

And then, things were very busy after that.

To make things that would suit Negishi-sensei's taste...

...Mom had Yaeko-san teach her to make Western foods.

Ahh...

Frying pork in oil. How degenerate!

Since we couldn't let Sensei sleep on my worn-out futon...

...I went to have it re-stuffed at the futon shop.

Grandma.

Huh?

Could it be you used this futon?

I used it.

Why'd ya do that?! I went to all that trouble to have it re-stuffed.

I can't sleep well in my own futon.

Geez!

I didn't know what had gotten Grandma so bent out of shape...

...but I was really looking forward to the day she would come.

Ah... She's come!

This stylish, nice woman...

...would be my Sensei in making Western clothes from today.

I was so filled with feelings I could have screamed them out right there in the shopping district.

To Be Continued

Carnation

End

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