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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 82

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

Suo Ryūichi Ayano Gou

Matsuda Megumi Rokkaku Seiji

Kitamura Tatsuo Hosshan.

Masako Genkaku Yūko Ohara Kyoko \h Sakaguchi Azusa Ohara Mitsuko \h Sugioka Shiori

よろこび映す日の為

Yorokobi utsusu hi no tame

Reflecting my rapture of this day

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

Ohara Zensaku (Photo) Kobayashi Kaoru Ohara Haru (Photo) \h Shoji Terue

Ohara Masaru (Photo) Sugura Tarō

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

Miura Heizō Kondō Masaomi

Showa 21 (1946) July

Not long after Shizuko went out as a bride...

...Kyoko was proposed to.

The polka-dot one-piece dresses were selling like crazy...

...so that summer I was sewing from first thing in the morning until night.

Excuse me...

Yes!

Are you the owner of this store, Ohara Itoko-san?

Yes, that's right.

I'm Matsuda Megumi and I'll be under your care from today.

"Megumi"...?

Matsuda Megumi-san?!

Yeah...

You're a man?

Yes.

Matsuda Megumi

I get that a lot. "When I saw the name, I thought you'd be a woman."

恵 - "Megumi" can also be read as "Kei," "Keiji," "Satoshi," etc. and is usually used as a man's name; "Megumi" is normally a woman's name

I am Matsuda Megumi.

Since my sisters were going off to be married and since I was short of seamstresses...

...I had hired a person who was a reception specialist.

Here you go.

Ah. Thank you.

Before being sent to the front, I was employed at Naniwa Tailoring Shop in Shinsaibashi.

Naniwa Tailoring Shop?!

That's a big store!

Yes.

I started off as a craftsman there...

...and then moved on to become their Accountant and President's secretary.

As a result...

...I do have a fair amount of personal connections in the business.

Oh! Really?!

Please introduce me to some good people!

That's right! You should ask for that!

Yeah!

Um... This girl has three daughters...

...but if you know a good man...

Mom!

Eh?

We're not talking about arranging a marriage for me. We're talking about work.

Ah... I see.

Yeah.

Um, Sensei. Would you happen to know of the Senshū Textile Trade Union?

Huh? Senshū...

...Textile Trade Union.

It's a gathering of the merchants from the Senshū area.

Would you like to put in an appearance there at least once? I can make the introductions.

Ah...

Senshū Textile Trade Union

So saying, I rushed right off to their offices to make contact...

Senshū Textile Trade Union

Excuse me.

Ah... Ohara-san?

Yes.

They're at their monthly meeting right now, so the union president asked me to show you the way.

I will take you over to the restaurant right away.

Ah, thank you.

From the start, I had imagined from the name "Senshū Textile Trade Union"...

...that it would be a gathering of squalid old men...

That was great, huh?

But it went far beyond what I had imagined.

Hello and I'm sorry for being late.

Ah, you've come, you've come!

Oh? Eh?

It is you?

The brave heroine who set up her Western Clothing store sign in Kishiwada?

Ah...

Um...

Nice to meet you!

I'm the Western dressmaker from Kishiwada...

...Ohara Itoko! Very nice to meet you!

I'm Miura...

Union President Miura Heizō

...of the spinning shop, Kaizuka. And I'm the union president here.

And this here's Sano, who has a knitting wool shop.

Oi, what's your name?

It's Yashima!

Yashima!

Nice ta meet ya!

Nice to meet you.

And this here's Kitamura...

...and I'm really not sure, but everyone says he's got some skills.

Kitamura Tatsuo

He's a whiz!

Very nice to meet you!

Oi, oi, oi, you guys go ahead and introduce yerselves!

Oi, I'm Nagase. Nice ta meet ya!

Nice ta meet ya!

I'm Kimura. Nice ta meet ya.

Nice ta meet ya.

I'm Hayashi.

Very nice to meet you.

And then this here's Suo...

...craftsman from Nagasaki.

Suo Ryūichi

He's currently my private secretary.

Very nice to meet you.

Ah, hello.

Today, look, this isn't the place for such stiff introductions.

Now, you go on ahead and have an nice long visit.

Oi! Excuse me! I have to go to the next place for awhile, so excuse me.

Ah, you're fine. You can stay here. Stay here the rest of the time.

So long, have fun!

Thanks!

Now, now, hurry and catch up! Drink up!

Well, that's fine, that's fine.

Today we can be uninhibited.

Um...

That "Nagasaki." Is that Kyūshū's Nagasaki?

Yes.

What brought you all the way up here?

I was a craftsman of gentlemen's suits in Nagasaki.

Then the atomic bomb burned it down...

...so my family asked our relatives for a favor and we came to Kishiwada.

Huh?

Suo is speaking in a heavy Nagasaki dialect, thus Itoko's confusion

I was...

By "Oi"...

...do you mean "I"?

That's right.

Ah...

I was a craftsman of gentlemen's suits in Nagasaki.

Ah...

When the atomic bomb hit, my home and store were burned down...

...so I came to Kishiwada.

Both your store and home were burned down?

That's right.

That's a truly regrettable thing.

It truly was.

But I thought that as long as both my wife and children were saved...

...that would make me happy.

Both your wife and children are safe?

Yes, that's right.

Ah, ah...

Can you understand the Nagasaki dialect?

Ah... Well...

...this is the first time I've talked to someone from Nagasaki.

When I first got here...

...I couldn't understand the Osaka dialect at all.

Is that right?

Yes.

Ah!

The only woman!

Huh?

I was looking forward to mixing with the first woman merchant in quite awhile...

...but rather than a flower, we get a satoimoji (potato) instead!

Huh?!

Well, forgive me. Here!

Is that sake?

Of course. We wouldn't bring out water.

What's with ya?

Could it be ya haven't drunk alcohol?

Please don't make fun of me.

I'm famed as THE heavy drinker of Kishiwada.

Hey ya. Are ya really a heavy drinker?

That's impossible for you, little miss!

It's Ohara!

Well then everyone...

...here's to you all!

Is this really okay?

She is a drinker!

Eh?

Ah...

Delicious!

Delicious?

Delicious!

Here you go.

Itadakimasu.

I found I was able to drink liquor for the first time.

Ahh... great!

That was true, but I also found out that if I drank too much, I'd get drunk.

Asobi ni yukunara Kagetsu naka no chaya Let's go pay a visit to the Kagetsu tea-house

Umezono uramon tataite Maruyama buura bura Let's stroll over to the Umezono's back gate in Maruyama

Burari burarito yuuta monda ichiyuu And say we just casually dropped by

Huh?

Where am I?

Is....

...someone carrying me?

Is that you, Dad?

Huh?

Ala?

I'm... already that old?

I want to get a perm like that, too!

I want one, too!

Say, that's a nice one, isn't it?

I want to look like a foreigner.

She's still sleeping...

Ow, ow, ow...

Sensei!

Ah... my head hurts.

Ala, ala, are you in pain?

Thirty-three years old...

Sensei, you're already thirty-three.

What do you mean by this?

Really, for a woman of your age to get drunk and be brought home by some stranger!

Don't yell anymore. It hurts my head.

You should feel embarrassed.

I think you should be lowering your head to us.

Ah... Someone carried me home?

Huh?! You don't remember that, either?!

Forgive me...

He was a very tall and lanky person.

He was kind and gave us all sorts of explanations...

...but I could hardly understand a word he was saying.

Ah... That person?

Is that you, Dad?

Huh?

Ah!

Ah, how embarrassing!

Eh?

Hey!

Are you resting again? Eh?

Hmm...

Ahh...

Please!

I pray from the bottom of my heart that I never meet him again...

To Be Continued

Carnation

End

Stylishly Dressed Photo Gallery

Polka-dot Blouse with Ribbon (Aichi-ken, Toyokawa-inari Park)