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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 15 "The Power of Love" Episode 81

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

Sae Kurotani Tomoka

Kioka Yasuo Uesugi Shōzō Yasuoka Yaeko \h Tamaru Maki

よろこび映す日の為

Yorokobi utsusu hi no tame

Reflecting my rapture of this day

Ohara Shizuko Yagyū Miyu Masako\h Genkaku Yūko

Kioka Miyo Iijima Junko Ohara Kyoko \h Sakaguchi Azusa Ohara Mitsuko \h Sugioka Shiori

Kinomoto Setsuko Nishimura Ayako Ohara Yūko \h Noda Kotono Ohara Naoko \h Ninomiya Hoshi

Rin Ootani Mio Sachiko\h Takada Mai Tome\h Yoshizawa Shana

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

Ohara Zensaku (Photo) Kobayashi Kaoru

Ohara Western Clothing

Luxury Clothing Shirts Children's Wear

Showa 21 (1946) March

Ah, you've returned!

Huh?

Did you get it? Did you get it?

Did you get it?

I'm back!

Welcome back!

How'd it go? Get it?

I did!

It's true!

"Women's Beauty!"

In March...

Women's Beauty

...after being suspended all throughout the war...

...the magazine "Women's Beauty" was reissued.

The special story on the first page was...

Oh!

American Fashion First News!

"American Fashion."

Th... this is wonderful, isn't it?

Ala!

Whoa!

Ala, my...!

Ah...

If Dad were still alive...

...he'd be scolding me again over what he didn't understand.

That's nice! Cute!

I'd like some of that!

Ah, that would be good on you!

She's a beauty.

What do you think?

Here, look!

Does this look good?

Ah! Looks good on you!

That's nice. I want to get a perm, too.

The once enemy nation of America...

...was now, somehow, a dazzling place to us.

So great!

In the black market, everyone would jump at things from America.

Oi, oi, oi!

What, what, what is it?

Oh!

Whaa!

This is nice!

But, they're expensive!

Yeah. Whaa... This too, oi!

But that's expensive!

I was going to give up and go home.

Expensive!

How many times are you going to say that?

This just came in today! Just came in today!

That's expensive!

I've found it at last!

Fabric for this new age of Western clothing!

Isn't it good?

Good, isn't it?

This is REALLY good!

At the black market, this was being sold along with some trash.

I grabbed the owner right away...

...and asked him to definitely tell me the next time his store got any like this in...

...and that I would promise to buy all of it!

You know Ito-chan...

...there's something a little soft and gentle about this.

Yeah! It has a really new feel to it somehow, doesn't it?

A deep-blue texture with white polka-dots!

Completely different from kimonos.

Whaa!

Say, back when all we could wear was monpe...

...I got so sick and tired of making them.

But now at long, long, long last...

...the day has come when I can make Western clothes with new fabrics!

Terrific things!

Yeah! Turn this into clothes.

Yeah!

When I walk around town in this...

...I think I'll feel...

...like I've been reborn again!

Yeah!

Like this and like this...

I thought I should turn my first fabric as clothes over to Sae in celebration.

That even after a war like that...

...just by putting these on she would feel reborn again...

Such a thing made me happy.

Whaa!

What do you think?

It'll look good on Sae!

Maybe she'll go back home wearing it!

She should, she should!

Here in the shopping district...

...she'd be like some model or movie star!

There'll be in an uproar! Hurry...

Nee-chan!

Huh?

What is it?

This is my once-in-a-lifetime request!

Eh?

That one-piece dress...

Could I wear it just for today?

Huh?

Today...

...my...

The one I love is coming back from the front.

The one you love?

You have such a person?

Look Nee-chan, I'm already thirty, you know.

Ah...

...that's right.

And I'm thirty-three, aren't I?

He said he would marry me if he lived and returned from the war...

...so I've been waiting all this time.

That person is coming back to Kishiwada today...

...and he contacted me saying he would be coming by foot to see me.

Why...

...were you so quiet about all this?

Well...

I was very sorry for you then.

Huh?

It happened...

...just when you had lost Onii-san.

Ah...

Fool.

Eh?

Look you.

For thinking such things about me.

I shortened the size in haste, but it was still a little off in places.

Dressed in new clothes, Shizuko looked so pretty...

...as she waited for the one she loved.

Ah, he's come!

Welcome back!

So... so amazing; kids these days.

True. I can't watch them.

This too, was a part of the new era that had come.

Ah, that is nice!

The response I got for that polka-dot one-piece dress was wonderful.

3 weeks, huh?

I wanted to ask if I could get it sooner, too, please.

The thing is, right now that will be the next after the next shipment of fabric that has to come in.

Then, all that over there has already been sold out?

That's the thing.

Can't be helped.

But please. I absolutely want one.

I'm sorry.

I've been begging the fabric shop owners to please hurry and get some to me!

Please!

Yes.

Please drop by again.

So long, counting on you!

I'm sorry!

Thank you very much for your business.

Showa 21 (1946) May

And then, after a little while...

...Shizuko was going off to get married.

There! All done!

That's great, isn't it!

The day has come at last when this bridal costume makes its debut!

Ito-chan, you weren't able to wear it, were you?!

Grandma.

I'm going.

You make a very pretty bride.

I was under your care until today.

Be healthy...

...and happy.

I'll come back again really soon.

Fool!

What would we do with you back?

Be healthy.

Whaa!

What a beauty!

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

Hurry and get going!

If you make the other person wait, Grandma'll get angry again.

That's true. Back during Itoko's wedding, Grandma was scary, wasn't she!

I'll be going!

Well then!

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

It was one month after we had seen Shizuko off, on June 11th.

Grandma died quietly.

To Be Continued

Carnation

End

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