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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 11 "Fervent Wish" Episode 63

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

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

Sae Kurotani Tomoka

Ohara Shizuko Yagyū Miyu Masako\h Genkaku Yūko

Ohara Kyoko Sakaguchi Azusa Ohara Mitsuko \h Sugioka Shiori Rin\h Ootani Mio

よろこび映す日の為

Yorokobi utsusu hi no tame

Reflecting my rapture of this day

Ohara Yūko Hanada Yusato Ohara Naoko\h Konoha

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

Grandma?

Eh?

What's with your monpe?

Eh? Ah, these?

Nice, aren't they?

They're from Oshima.

Oshima?

When I was staying in Oshima, these were the nicest monpe I found.

What? Why?

Why did you have such nice monpe made?

It was so I could feel a little bit happier while wearing them, wasn't it?

Ah, that's true, but... Isn't that just a waste?

No.

I got bored with the usual monpei, but these are made of high-quality cloth.

Without these, I'd die a lot quicker.

Die?

You just have to stir things up when you get bored.

It's terrible how that can shorten your life.

When you're my age too, you'll understand.

Okay!

Okay, okay!

Okay!

What is it?

Dad, endure it for a bit.

Whab boing? (What are you doing?)

Borld! (It's cold!)

This room has gotten stagnant...

...so I'm blowing some fresh air in here.

It's cold!

It's cold!

Getting bored can shorten your life, Grandma.

The dull gray days of before were now, all at once, sunny days.

Ahh... Feels good!

Rin-chan.

Yes!

C'mere, c'mere.

C'mere, c'mere.

Yes.

Look. Starting today you don't have to work as a seamstress and will watch over the baby.

Huh?

The number of tickets needed for clothes has gone up...

...and we haven't had many customers in a while...

...so we can make do with one less seamstress.

Ah.

Both Yūko and Naoko love you, too, and you're skilled at babysitting.

Ah.

Please!

Yes.

Yeah.

Rin-chan, look!

Huh?

Yū-chan, you're good at that.

A monpe from a kimono?

That's right, a monpe.

When I heard Grandma talk about it, the scales fell off my eyes.

Monpe can be made using good cloth, too.

That's really the way to go.

When their son or husband is sent off to the front...

...I guess a monpe is the one good outfit they have to see them off in.

And at weddings and funeral ceremonies, too.

Monpei has been approved of as formal attire but yet has a boring feel to it.

But I think that in the women's hearts...

...they don't approve of it and they aren't happy about it at all.

I guess when a woman dresses up, that's what cheers her up.

That's true, but Grandma's rich, and going to Oshima would bankrupt us...

I guess being ordinary is overemphasized...

...when your only good outfit is a monpe.

That's right, that's right!

Still, do you think we can't convert a kimono?

Can we convert a kimono to a monpe?

I don't know.

What's that...

Well, that's what I wanted us to think about right now.

Ah...

The main point is that it's okay to take one apart for a monpe.

What we need to find is the best way to take scissors to a kimono and finish it as one.

If we can figure that out, the customers'll come calling at our store again.

I guess due to the number of tickets being raised for clothing...

...no one has made a new clothing design in a long time.

From here on if we can say...

..."We have a new way of making monpe"...

...the customers'll come calling at the store again.

Listen. We won't let the flow of customers come to an end.

We'll definitely not let it stop.

Yes, yes!

I had forgotten about you.

Itadakimasu.

Delicious...

This wasn't being sold anywhere these days.

I'm sure that Grandpa's cook had made it somehow or other with flour and sugar.

Grandpa, Grandma, Cook-san...

...thank you.

Itoko'll do her best.

Just you watch.

Grandpa and Grandma's sympathy visit was very effective...

...and by the next day, Grandma was back on her feet.

And then I started studying how to make a new monpe.

How about if we cut it here?

Hmm... Well, the problem this time around would be how to connect it.

Well then...

How about here?

No, I know.

Like this...

Ow!

Oww...

Naoko!

Why did you come downstairs?

Huh? Where's Rin-chan?

Huh?

Rin-chan!

Rin-chan!

What are you doing?

Are you asleep?!

She was, but well, for now I could do some babysitting.

So beautiful!

Can we really convert kimonos like this?

We can.

This is the best outfit.

My Nee-chan will definitely want to know about this.

Her wedding's been called for soon...

...and she was really regretting having to go to it wearing a monpe.

Right?

Yes, those are the times when a monpe are no good, right!

Sensei...

...let's put a huge poster in the window.

"Learn how to make new, fashionable monpes"

That's right!

And write, "You can convert kimonos!"

That's right!

Yes, yes, write that.

Hurry, hurry! Look!

Ohara Western Clothing

And so I started a classroom for making new monpe.

New Classroom Opening Design Fashionable Monpe We'll teach you how to make them 2 yen

Ohara Western Clothing Store had started something again...

Design Monpe

...but there was no reason to think that anything new...

...would be accepted right away.

Convert your kimono into a monpe

Our fixed limit of eight customers for the first day had five people come.

However, those five people proved to be an interesting set...

Good afternoon!

Yes, these were the people at hand.

Ah, Sae-san, welcome.

Come in, come in!

Yes! Here, your fee.

Thank you!

Where's Ito-chan?

She'll be right back.

Full of youth and energy.

With a love of the new; a love for what was fashionable.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

And that also brought out their strong, competitive spirits.

So much so, that when I came out...

Hello, thanks for waiting.

...there was a terribly cold feeling to the place.

Convert your kimono into a monpe

So what you do...

Convert your kimono into a monpe

...is first take the kimono to pieces...

Convert your kimono into a monpe

That was so, but once I started speaking...

...they became enthusiastic.

Moreover, bold.

They increasingly applied their scissors towards those nice kimonos.

Wai... wait! Wai... wait!

Eh?

You need to be much more careful with your scissors or you'll get it wrong!

Really?

Yeah.

Ah, geez, look what you've done here. Here and here!

Let me see that!

What are you doing?!

Just watch!

For such a nice kimono, just carving away at it won't do!

Ohara Western Clothing

It's nice! It's a nice pattern!

Ohara Western Clothing

Does it look good on me? I thought so. But yours is nice, too.

At first they had been aloof to one another...

...but by the end they were the closest of friends.

That's a nice color.

You're right.

That color is nice.

Hey!

Yours is nice, too!

That's not true! More importantly, I guess yours turned out better than expected, huh!

No, no! My skill's too crude for that.

Look! This'll come apart at the seams in no time!

Yours is the one that looks high quality!

I don't know about that!

It's coming apart!

Yours is great.

It's very good.

I told you...

Mine's crude...

It's okay! You made a nice Monpe.

It wasn't just me.

It's just because of the pattern.

Wait. After going to all the trouble of making these monpe...

...shouldn't we all go out somewhere together like this?

Ah, let's go, let's go!

Ito-chan, wanna go, too?

I can't go. I'm too busy.

Yeah. Can't be helped.

Well then, should I go with them?

What are you saying?!

Well, be sure and advertise my place as much as you can wherever you go!

Yeah.

Just leave it to us!

So long, thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Still, where can we go nowadays all dressed up like this?

There aren't any young men around anywhere!

That's okay. We don't particularly need men around.

But, there are some young men around.

Where?

Where?

Strong, aren't they?

Somehow... You get the feeling Japan can win this war.

Yeah. I'm feeling that way, too!

To Be Continued

Carnation

End

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