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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 6 "A Maiden's Devotion" Episode 34

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 Haru Shoji Terue

Kinomoto Eisaku Kōmoto Masahiro

重く濡らした瞼は今

Omoku nurashita mabuta wa ima

My eyelids, heavily soaked, are right now

Kawamoto Masaru Sugura Tarō

Yasuoka Tamae Hamada Mari Yasuoka Yaeko \h Tamaru Maki

Kioka Yasuo Uesugi Shōzō Ohara Shizuko \h Yagyū Miyu

Okunaka Sōjirō Komatsu Ken'etsu 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

Kinomoto Setsuko Nishimura Ayako

Sae Kurotani Tomoka

Owner of "Royal" Store Dan Jirō

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 Sadako Toake Yukiyo

Ohara Zensaku Kobayashi Kaoru

It's hot!

The summer this year is so hot.

Ah, it's hot...

I'll have a word with you.

There's no reason for us to be making clothes here in Kishiwada forever.

We'll just up one day and move this store to Shinsaibashi or Tokyo.

Just like you, Boss!

Yeah.

From the start, my mother...

...was born in Tokyo.

Is that right?

Yeah, that's right.

Ah, so that's why you're so refined, eh Boss?

Well, that's just between us.

Good afternoon.

Yes!

Welcome!

Ohara-san. Ohara-san!

Yes?

You've got a wonderful customer here.

Huh?

Come over here.

What are you doing? Hurry!

Yeah.

Ah, she's come, she's come.

Am I... fired?

Eh?

Aren't I being fired?

Why would I fire you?

But...

Um...

I...

Um...

I know this person.

Of course you do.

She heard about us from you and thus came intentionally looking for our store.

Why?

I want you to make me an evening dress.

An "evening dress?"

That's right.

Because my highest-quality customer was saying...

"Kishiwada is so backward; they still have dancers wearing kimonos and aprons in their dance halls."

"But over in Tokyo, everyone there is already in evening dresses."

Yes, the person in an evening dress is always more attractive.

They are?

Yes, they are.

I've never seen an evening dress.

Ah, ah, they're somehow...

...flashy here and such like that. Kinda like that.

Ahh...

Yes, Ohara. Can you make an evening dress?

Ah, an evening dress...

Yeah. Seems she's skilled at such things...

...since she even made the uniforms for the Shinsaibashi department store. Right?

Yes.

If it's something for a woman, I can make it.

You can make an evening dress?

I can make one.

Then please do.

Ah, I mentioned this before, but I'm fine even if the price is a little higher.

Thank you!

Turn around.

About Kansuke...

Eh?

You aren't...

...seeing Kansuke anymore?

I haven't met him.

If that boy tried to meet me, the Manager would tell his men to beat him up.

Ah...

I hope you won't think about such unnecessary things.

Just making me a nice dress is fine.

I want to wear it and give that customer of mine a big shock.

I want that man to see...

...just how sharp Kishiwada dancers are!

All right.

Yes, that's ten yen exactly.

That's just an advance payment.

If it costs more, I'll pay more.

Anyhow, make me a good one.

Yes.

Thank you!

Ah, we'll be in touch with you again.

Goodbye. Thank you.

Um, Boss.

By the way, just what is an evening dress?

Huh?

You don't know?!

I don't know. I've never seen one.

Wha... what is this?!

Well Boss, you don't know either?

I don't know!

I'm an expert in men's apparel, after all!

I thought you were the one who would know them!

Well, I don't know!

Huh? What's that?

Was that "If it's something for a woman, I can make it" just boasting?

I wasn't boasting!

But, the Western clothing I've sewn...

...are one-piece dresses and skirts...

I don't know!

Find out for yourself.

It's too late to refuse it now.

Ah, she's gone.

Hairstylist Yasuoka

If I recall, an evening dress is one used in the evenings.

In the evenings...

A dress put on in the evenings?

Is it black?

Black would be more for night.

They're more like... a sunset color perhaps?

Sunset...

Yeah, well, just ask Yaeko. She'll be back soon.

Yeah.

I'm home.

Oh, I was just saying you'd be back. Welcome home.

Welcome back!

Ah, Ito-chan!

Come here a minute, Yaeko-san.

Yeah.

Do you know what an evening dress is?

An evening dress?

Yeah.

An evening dress, if I remember...

...is a formal dress worn at night, isn't it?

A formal night dress?

What kind of design? What kind of fabric?

What's going on? Are you making an evening dress this time around?

That's right. I'm making it for a dance hall dancer.

A dance hall, huh...

Ah... I remember something probably appeared like that in the newspaper the other day. Hold on.

Hey, Tarō-chan. Tarō-chan, let's go see your father.

Come on.

Let's see now.

Ah, that's right.

The other day... Natsu-chan came in.

Eh?! How is she? Is she doing okay?

Well, she didn't look depressed...

...but it seems that ever since her father collapsed, he's been in bed.

Really.

I see...

Well, that girl's not one to show it when she's weak...

How is Yoshida-ya and Natsu's mother doing?

Let's see.

Natsu-chan said that while the omiai went well...

...the wedding gifts and the wedding ceremony have been pushed off for now.

Huh?!

The wedding ceremony didn't go forward?

Eh, you hadn't heard?

I hadn't.

Ah, found it, found it.

Ah, lemme see, lemme see!

In this special report called "New Women's Occupations..."

...dance hall dancers are one of them, but...

New Women's Occupations

Ah...

...that's just a plain dress, isn't it?

Yeah.

So it's that sort of thing...

Eh?!

From just their two legs, such dancers make 300 yen a month

"From just their two legs, such dancers can make 300 yen a month."

Whoa!

Ahh...

I wish I was a girl with the sort of power she has.

She's that good?

She's wonderful.

She's young, hands out ten yen just like that and said...

"This is just an advance."

"Make a good one and I'll pay you more," like that.

Whaa... Such a great customer with that sort of power...

...has come to Ito-chan, huh?

Yeah.

How do you know her?

Eh? Ah...

Well...

How do I, I wonder?

Ah, where's Kansuke?

Ah, Kansuke went to do the shopping.

The shopping?

Yeah.

Thanks to you, he's been reflecting a great deal on what he's done and been helping us out a lot.

Really?

I hope that continues.

He won't continue like that. This is my boy we're talking about!

Yomo tsuji Everything around is used up

Yeah.

Yeah, all right.

So long...

Like I thought, my Kobe Grandma does have an evening dress.

Ehh!

I'll go to Kobe tomorrow and she'll let me see it.

Eh?

What is it?

Dad'll get angry again.

I don't care if he gets angry.

Eh?

Ahh... Dad's been drinking so heavily these days...

...that he can yell up a storm at me for all I care.

Nee-chan...

What?

You shouldn't talk about Dad that way...

It's the truth!

I would think...

...there's no doubt that my Dad's in the gutter.

You're up early, aren't you?

I'm going to Kobe.

Huh? Kobe?

Why there again?

I have a little work there.

Ah, well, be careful then.

Yeah. I'm off.

Yeah, get going.

Natsu's father had collapsed as well.

My Dad had gotten old...

...his kimono shop had gone bankrupt...

...and his daughter hadn't lived up to his expectations...

...so unwittingly he taken up drinking alcohol...

Hello there!

Good afternoon...

Ah, Itoko-sama. Welcome.

Hello.

Where's Grandma?

She's been resting in her room since a short while ago.

Eh?

Is she in bad health?

Ah, no.

Well, I think she has a cold though.

Grandma!

Are you well? Are you okay?

Say, Grandma! Grandma!

Say, Grandma! Grandma! Are you okay...

Itoko...

Huh?

Your...

...your voice is making my head ring.

Yeah.

Forgive me.

This is pretty!

Hmm.

Even so, these are really difficult.

Those...

...are imported fabrics...

And expensive.

Grandma told me, "it's just an ordinary cold..."

...but she hadn't eaten each much of her favorite pastry...

...and didn't talk very much, either.

My Grandpa had turned a bit elderly lately.

Those who had been older sisters to me were now looking like older ladies.

Of all the adults that I knew...

...those adults were getting older, weren't they?

To Be Continued

Carnation

End

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