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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 29

Screenplay Watanabe Aya

かなしみ隠し震えて

Kanashimi kakushi furuete

Trembling with hidden sorrows

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 Haru Shoji Terue

重く濡らした瞼は今

Omoku nurashita mabuta wa ima

My eyelids, heavily soaked, are right now

Yoshida Natsu Kuriyama Chiaki

Yasuoka Tamae Hamada Mari Yasuoka Kansuke \h Onoue Hiroyuki

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

よろこび映す日の為

Yorokobi utsusu hi no tame

Reflecting my rapture of this day

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

Hanamura Kiichi Kunimura Jyūn

Ohara Zensaku Kobayashi Kaoru

No problems here.

Yes, here either.

None here, either.

Yes, yes, splendid.

Well, you really did make it in time. Thank you for your hard work.

Ohara-san.

Ohara-san!

Huh?

Ah, ah, what's happened? Was there anything wrong with them?

Here.

Please go home and get some sleep.

Ah...

Thank you.

I felt exhausted.

After that, I fell asleep on the train for the first time.

Thank goodness, thank goodness.

Itoko!

Don't sleep there; lay out a futon and sleep.

I slept in the living room...

When I finally got into my futon...

...I didn't eat dinner but just slept until it was morning.

Ah, here they come.

Happy New Year.

The Shinsaibashi Department Store will now open!

Happy New Year.

Welcome.

Welcome! Happy New Year.

Welcome!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

These are this year's Fukubukuro boxes. Please take them home with our blessings for this year.

Fukubukuro Box - "mystery package" containing a variety of goods supposedly worth more in total than the purchase price

Here are this year's Fukubukuro boxes.

Thank you very much. How is it?

Thank you for waiting.

Going up. Going up.

Happy New Year

Hey! Hey!

Yes?

Are you of this place?

Yes.

You've changed the uniforms, haven't you?

Ah, yes.

First Sales Event!

They're very nice!

Ah... Thank you very much!

First Sales Event!

I wanna hurry and open it.

Yeah.

I wonder what's in it?

It rolls around. It's rolling around.

Hard candy? Candy maybe?

Now that New Year's was over, our stores shelves were still all bare...

...so I had to think of how our family of seven was to eat.

I wonder what could be rolling around in there?

I'm hoping it's shiny pearls!

No, it's mine.

It's mine!

No!

You should split it between you.

No, we'd hate that, right?

I'd hate that.

Well, I'd think about tomorrow tomorrow.

Hairstylist Yasuoka

Good afternoon!

Ala, Ito-chan. Happy New Year.

Happy New Year. This is a gift from Shinsaibashi!

Ah, thank you!

There.

I'll put it here.

Yes.

Getting that job with a department store was a good thing, huh?

Yeah. Yaeko-san and Kansuke both were a big help.

It's Ito-chan.

Ah!

Still as boisterous as ever, huh!

What was that for!?

Huh?

You just threw that, didn't you?

What's this about a "job?"

Huh?

Oba-chan was talking about it. You got a job with a department store.

Yeah.

I worked making uniforms for a department store.

Were they any good?

I suppose.

Ah... that's rare.

Quiet, you.

You were deceived, weren't you?

Huh?

By that fool kabuki actor.

Hmpf. That's old news.

I broke it off with that stupid man long ago.

Really? That's great!

I will soon be the splendid young proprietress of Yoshida-ya.

And after that, I'm to be married before long.

Married?

I've been busy with all the talk of the omiai.

Omiai - formal marriage interview

Already getting married?

That's early!

I haven't even thought about that yet.

Well of course, right? The prettiest flowers are the ones sold first.

Hey you...

Your wish was to become Taizō-niichan's bride, wasn't it?

Fool! Fool! Fool! Ugly!

Welcome! Welcome!

Welcome!

Dad had put in the sewing machine...

...just so I could supply them with uniforms...

...so he reckoned that with my success at the department store...

...we could hope for multiple orders of work for Western clothes from them.

But ever since then, we hadn't heard a peep from that department store.

Ohara Dry-goods Store

And now, this is the Ohara Dry-goods store.

Even so, all our shelves are empty of fabrics.

In their stead, we had put in a sewing machine...

...and we would sell various small articles.

What's with this store...

In the end, I gave a lot of thought as to what kind of store Ohara Dry-goods store should be.

The one little thing I could say was...

...I couldn't tell what sort of store it would be until customers came in.

At this rate though, it would definitely go bankrupt.

Itoko-neechan.

Huh?

Can I talk to you now? Just for a bit.

Yeah.

Ah... But, there was one good thing.

In two more months, Shizuko would graduate from Girl's School.

Since her grades had been excellent, it had been decided that...

...Shizuko would find a job at a company with good wages.

By the way, when are you supposed to start going to work?

Eh?

At a company. In April, isn't it?

This isn't about that.

What is it?

I'm thinking of not getting a job.

Not getting a job? Why?

I want to help Nee-chan out.

Help me?

Yeah.

The other day with those department store uniforms, we all had fun making them.

So rather than help some other place out, I want to help Nee-chan.

Fool!

Fool!

Eh?

You don't know anything!

Why?

Why are you angry?

I was a failure...

A huge failure.

My sisters had had it so carefree...

...they had never once talked about money.

I had been a fool, too, but this girl took the cake.

This is painful for me!

We're not a kimono dry-goods store and we're not a Western clothes store yet, either!

If it goes on like this, our entire family will starve! We're in dire straits here!

I'm sorry!

Go to work for four or five companies!

And if you want to help me out so much...

...bring in other Western dressmaking jobs!

Jobs?

That's right.

If you could bring in some work like that, you'd be helping me out for the first time!

Yes.

Where are you going?

To bring in some work.

Huh?

Hold on there, Shizuko!

Well, that's okay.

Given how tough business conditions were...

...she'd just get turned down.

And then, nearly an hour later.

Somehow Shizuko had brought in work.

Patches?

No one wants to take them and I've already been around to dozens of places.

But then, just as I got turned down again...

...this young woman happened by at just the right time...

...and told me how you had learned to sew patches at your previous store.

I can, I can sew patches! How many pieces?

Exactly one hundred pieces.

Eh? One hundred pieces?!

By tomorrow morning.

Ah...

I guess that's impossible, isn't it?

No...

...we'll do it. We'll do it!

Eh? Are you sure?

Yes.

What sort of work are you taking?!

Look...

...didn't you think doing one hundred patches by morning would be impossible?

I'll be frazzled...

...but I can get it done.

My hand still remembers how to make patches.

It's okay not to take work like that!

Listen to me!

But the customer was in trouble.

He was in trouble? What about it?

This isn't work; it's an act of mercy.

If you take on such absurd jobs...

...we won't be able to eat securely!

If you want to do it on your own...

...then get a job from that department store the other day!

That's the sort of work you should be choosing!

That's true, but...

That's true, but what?

Right now I want to choose work that helps the Ohara Dry-goods store.

What's that?

If I don't choose absurd work like this...

...then the seven of us can't eat.

How selfish!

I understand!

I FULLY understand your logic.

Such a splendid thing!

Look...

...you do this by yourself until it's done.

Shizuko, you don't help her, either.

Eh?

Itoko, took this job on her own.

So she can do it alone!

But, I wanted to help Nee-chan...

Quiet!

Get yourself upstairs!

Go!

To Be Continued

Carnation

End

Stylishly Dressed Photo Gallery

Early Showa Era, Department Store Elevator Girls