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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 5 "Look at Me" Episode 27

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

Kinomoto Eisaku Kōmoto Masahiro

Masuya Kōkichi Thomas Ken

Ohara Shizuko Yagyū Miyu Ohara Kyoko \h Maki Mei Ohara Mitsuko (Voice) \h Yoshida Aoi

Matsuya Sayo Ichiki Mikiko Sakamoto\h Kanaya Katsumi Okamura\h Kawano Tomohiro

よろこび映す日の為

Yorokobi utsusu hi no tame

Reflecting my rapture of this day

Yamaguchi Nakamura Daiki Tanaka\h Yuasa Takashi

Hanamura Kiichi Kunimura Jyūn

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

Matsuzaka Seizaburō Takarada Akira

Matsuzaka Sadako Toake Yukiyo

Ohara Zensaku Kobayashi Kaoru

Hello there!

I'm Ohara.

Ah.

This is the sample I've made.

Oh.

What do you think of it?

Yeah...

Just... Just stand there a moment.

Here?

Yeah, that's it.

Welcome!

We... Welcome!

You, over there...

Welcome!

Please raise your hand a little higher.

That's it.

Say, where can I find the neckties?

Eh?

Ah... Oba-chan, I'm sorry, wait just a moment please.

Yes.

I'm sorry. Do you have neckties for sale?

Ah!

Ma'am, did you want neckties?

Yes.

This way, please.

All right! I had been spoken to!

Success!

Can I tell you our conclusion?

We'll use them.

Thank you!

However, we have a lot to discuss.

Since these will be our long-awaited new uniforms...

...I want to unveil them with a bang as part of our New Year's first sales event.

Can you make them in time?

First sales event?

Yeah.

When would you need them?

Before the third.

One week from now. We'd need twenty of them.

If you find that's impossible, I'll buy the design from you...

...and ask some other place sew them up.

I'll do it!

That's twenty uniforms in one week.

I'll do it! Please leave it to me!

Let's see... After that...

...I'll want you to make three different size categories.

Three large...

Twelve medium...

...and five small.

That's twenty all together.

And then, eh...

On January second, um...

Yes, deliver the goods by 10am in the morning...

Can you do that? Really?

I'll do it.

Ah...

Well, I know you're obstinate...

...but that is twenty uniforms in one week.

I'll do it!

Thank you!

Ahh!

I had gotten my first job!

My first one!

Good afternoon!

Ehh... Welcome!

Excuse me.

How much for an entire bolt of this fabric?

Eh?

This fabric!

The department store had given me an advance of about 20%.

Miss...

...can you carry this?

It's seriously heavy.

Ah... I can carry it, I can carry it!

Well, since it was my first day in high heels...

...I felt that this work was like something out of a dream.

I'm home!

Ah, it's heavy!

Yes, yes, yes...

Sir, thank you! Here's the money for the shoes!

Grandma, here's the pattern for the large size.

Mom, here's the pattern for the small size. Please mark and then cut the fabric.

And then, once you've finished those...

...divide the twelve medium sized patterns between yourselves.

Yeah.

In short, we should cut the fabric according to this?

Right.

Mom, do you understand?

Yeah, I understand...

Ah...

Do you really understand?

I'm home!

Ah, she's back in time.

Mitsuko! Mitsuko! Come help!

Eh? Where's Mitsuko?

Tending the store.

Eh? But I need her help here.

Since she'll be tending store for now, I'm saying I'll help you out.

Tell me! Is there anything I can do?

Thank you!

Thank goodness.

Having Dad helping out was a load off my mind.

Dad, take these.

Ah...

You can mark these out.

Ah... I know how to do that.

Eh?

Keep it steady.

Steady...

You're following the lines, right?

Yes.

It's not good to cross them.

Yes.

For the time being, I left Dad to keep an eye on the cutting...

...while I went in search of...

Masuya Patch Shop

...a sewing machine.

Good afternoon!

Ohara!

Dear! Hurry, hurry!

Masuya Patch Shop

Masuya Patch Shop

Oi, oi! Dear, hurry, come!

Oh, it's been a long time, hasn't it!

I haven't contacted you in awhile.

Well... Come in, come in!

Thank you. But, I'm sorry.

I'm in a rush. I wanted to discuss something with you.

What is it, what is it?

The sewing machine...

The sewing machine, huh...

Yes.

Is there any chance I could use it?

It would be really hard to let you use it, though...

That's right, Big Boss. We'll be using it to it's fullest until the 30th.

Once the New Year comes, it'd be fine for you to use it then.

Well, there's nothing big going on then, so it'd be okay to use it on New Year's day, too.

Could you sew twenty uniforms...

...in just two days?

No, that'd be impossible.

Is there some other shop where there's a sewing machine available?

With the torrent of New Year's work, they'll be really busy, too.

Thank you! Sorry for disturbing you! I'll come up with something else.

Oi, oi! At least have a cup of tea with us, oi!

I'm sorry. I'll come again.

Thank you!

Somehow, she was looking good there.

Ohara! Oi, Ohara!

Have some tea!

Good luck!

Ah, wait, the teacup...

As ever, he was someone I didn't understand.

Are you playing around somewhere? On a date?

Are you in Shinsaibashi? You should tell me honestly.

I'm not playing around, I'm not!

I'm at the neighborhood electric store.

I'm borrowing their telephone...

...but they've got the radio going. Hold on a minute.

Sir!

Turn it down a little!

Yeah!

Hello?

Um, Grandma...

...can I use one of your factory's sewing machines until early in the next year?

What? Itoko does, huh...

Yeah...

Yeah, yeah...

Hmm...

She can, she can!

It's okay for her to use our sewing machines!

Ah, does she want it sent to her?

Will it make it in time if we have it sent?

Or else could she...

What?

She could spend the nights with us?

That's good!

That's the best way! Yeah!

How many sewing machines does she need? She can have all she wants!

Eh?

Just one is fine, huh?

Well, I suppose so. It's just Itoko alone, right!

Well, leave it to me!

Yes, Kinomoto Electric Shop!

Yes...

Ah, Grandma. How'd it go?

Ah...

You got a sewing machine?

Ah, thank goodness!

Yeah...

Yeah!

So long, I'll come out there today.

Yeah...

Yeah... So long!

Thank you, Sir!

Ah, sure!

I'm home!

Yo. How'd it go at the patch shop? Will they lend you their sewing machine?

They can't.

Eh!

That's why I'm going to Kobe.

Kobe?

Yeah.

I just called Grandma on the telephone and told her, "I really need to use one"...

...so anyhow, I'll start the sewing over there.

Once you've finished cutting the remaining cloth, I'll have Shizuko come deliver it to me.

Thank goodness for that.

How much have you done?

This, this and this...

My, you'll spend the nights there? You'll need your nightclothes...

Never mind that! Grandma told me she'd have all of that ready for me over there.

"All you'll have to do is the sewing," she said.

Hmm, that's a help.

That's good, that's good.

Look! Hurry and get going!

No!

Eh?

I won't permit it!

Huh?

You can't go to Kobe!

"Can't go..." If I can't go, I can't use the sewing machine.

I can't sew all these without a sewing machine.

Too bad!

I said you can't go, so you can't go!

Making a mess of things again! Dad, the sewing machine...

Don't talk back!

Listen!

You can't go to Kobe...

...and don't bring it up again!

No...

What'll I do...

Get going!

Eh? But...

We'll take care of things afterwards.

But...

It's his usual inferiority complex.

Don't let it bother you.

You're right today.

Hurry and get going to Kobe.

Get going, Nee-chan.

Get going.

Mom...

...will you be okay?

Mom, you're the one he'll take it out on the most.

Don't worry.

I'll just keep telling him, "Yes, yes, I'm sorry."

Right!

Here, here! This one, too!

And this too. Here, here!

They had said that, but anyhow, since I had no time left...

...I had to fly off to catch the train.

To Be Continued

Carnation

End

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