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This Kitamura here...

Could you lend him a hand?

Huh?

Heiwa Fansubs Presents...

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 16 "A Shaken Heart" Episode 88

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

Matsuda Megumi Rokkaku Seiji

Kitamura Tatsuo Hosshan.

Yasuoka Yaeko Tamaru Maki Masako\h Genkaku Yūko

よろこび映す日の為

Yorokobi utsusu hi no tame

Reflecting my rapture of this day

Ohara Yūko Noda Kotono Ohara Naoko \h Ninomiya Hoshi Ohara Satoko \h Sugimoto Korin

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

The reason we called for you today...

Yes.

Ready-made.

"Ready-made?"

What's that?

I said it right.

Ready-made.

Maybe so, but what is it?

You don't know?

Hah!

It's a new way of doing business in Western clothes; an American system.

Ah...

Well, it'll reach your place too...

...'cause Western dressmaking shops like yours are just as old-fashioned as kimono stores were.

You take an order from a customer, choose a fabric...

...and measure their lengths and then make one piece of clothing.

But the American system is different. They make them all beforehand.

They make many, many copies in the same style and set them up in stores for sale.

Doing it that way there's almost no waste and the prices can be lowered.

That's ready-...

Ready-made.

Ready-made.

I definitely think that way will become popular in Japan, too.

This is what it looks like to me. From here on out, it'll be the ready-made age.

Ah...

And so?

Eh?

What did you want to talk to me about?

Ah, well...

That's the thing. Um...

Say, say, Ohara-san.

The vital point is...

This guy here's reading is that this is what the future age will bring.

Ah...

And, that's why he wants to make a store for ready-made goods.

Yes.

That's the principle of what he's saying.

And he has a mind to put some effort into it.

And so I think this union should try and help him out.

Yeah.

Over in Shinsaibashi...

Our city is rather on the outskirts of that place...

...but his idea is to set up a small store and factory there.

After that, well...

...it's all about what goods he'll have in it.

And that's...

...the reason he wants Ohara-san's cooperation.

Ah...

Well...

But, I'm sorry Union President.

Right now, I'm...

I've got my hands full with my own store.

I know.

Yeah, I know that full well.

I don't think there's a way we could ask you to attach yourself to a factory.

Yeah.

I'll place someone other than you to be Director of the factory.

Right! What we want of you...

...is to make new styles of clothing for it.

And, we'd want you to teach the skills needed to make them to the Director.

That's all. Right! Nothing more than that.

Ah...

The wages...

...would be on the commission system.

10% of any sales.

How about it? Not bad, is it?

Ah...

Take it, Sensei. You can't not take it.

That's so, but...

If we sold just 300 blouses at 120 yen each...

...our 10% would be...

3,600 yen!

Ahh! So much!

That's good business.

Right!

That's true, but...

Is there something you don't like about it, Sensei?

Well, there's some things even I'm not so sure about.

Like what?

That Kitamura is a very strongly evil man.

Huh?

He seems really nice to me.

Ala? Really?

Hmph. He's nothing but a toad.

He's just noisy and does his own thing.

Well then, why?

Yeah!

That's true, but it's also the total opposite of our business.

We don't know who'll be wearing them.

Anyhow, while they talk about what numbers they'll make and how "they'll sell"...

...it's all still sketchy at best. There's not enough facts.

Hmm...

Is anyone here?

Yes!

Still, this is good.

That's true, but...

Sensei!

Sensei, you're in no position to turn down such a good offer!

At long last the charge for the perm machine had been paid back...

...but then you went and make a loan to that beauty salon for repairs.

In addition to that, you're also Yoshida-san's guarantor, right?

You must understand that that way of thinking won't bring in any kind of income!

Sensei!

Um, could you come out here for a little?

Huh?

Wait, wait, Sensei! Wait!

Ah, hello, good afternoon!

Hi!

(I've brought you the picture of the clothes I was talking to you about.)

What? What? Huh?

(Um, here it is.)

Huh?

(Ah, the picture.)

(I thought it would be useful to you. Look.)

Ah! You've brought a picture.

(Isn't it beautiful?)

Ah, yeah, yeah!

(What do you think?)

(I think it's...)

Dior!

(Yes, Dior.)

Whaa... Something by Dior.

(Yes.)

Of course I know of them. I love them very much, too!

Dior!

Dior!

Dior!

Dior!

That's how you say it.

Ito-chan.

Huh?

They mention a new design in here, so I brought it!

Ehh... Which, which?

Ah, you're right. Dior!

This would be good for next time, right?

Right!

Ah, but even so, see what they wrote here.

Because of the war, even France is still lacking in fabrics.

So not everyone is able to get such things to wear.

Look here, the amount of fabric used for this skirt is incredible!

Right!

Eh...

Ala?

Huh?

Ala, where are the little ones?

Huh?

They're at piano.

Piano?

Today piano, tomorrow calligraphy and Wednesday painting.

After that they have Nagauta, flower, dance and Japanese dance.

Nagauta - long, epic songs with shamisen accompaniment

I'm making them learn each and every little thing I can.

Really?

It's for their own sakes.

And so I can concentrate on my work.

And so they don't bother the customers.

"Killing two birds with one stone."

No, three birds maybe?

I see!

I had such a carefree smile then...

...but I was so naive.

We're home!

Mom, buy a piano!

Buy a piano!

Piano! Piano! Piano!

Piano! Piano! I want one!

Buy a piano! Buy a piano!

Mom, buy a piano!

Buy a piano!

Mom, buy a piano!

Buy a piano!

Excuse us.

What is it?

There's a shop where they sell musical instruments. The three of us really one one!

We really, really want one!

Say Mom, buy us a piano!

Buy a piano!

Buy a piano!

Buy a piano!

A piano?

Fools! I can't buy such a thing.

We want a piano! Buy us a piano!

Buy us a piano! We want a piano!

We want a piano! We want a piano!

No!

We want a piano!

We want a piano!

Shut up! I'm not buying you one!

But...

We want a piano.

We want a piano! Buy us a piano!

We want a piano! Buy us a piano!

We want a piano! Buy us a piano!

We want a piano! Buy us a piano!

Mom, what should I do?

I don't know!

Ehh...

Mom. Say, wait!

We want a piano! Buy us a piano!

Mom!

Well, to have these three be so stubborn all at once was a scary thing.

We want a piano! Buy us a piano!

Ahhhhhh!

What is that?

Ah, I don't wanna see, don't wanna see!

"Plink, plink on the piano."

And then a wonderfully clear sound comes out!

Black! And there's white keys, too!

Mom has to play the bad guy and not get you a piano.

We definitely have to buy a piano!

Yeah!

Yeah!

Please forgive me for being the bad guy!

Senshū Textile Trade Union

Good afternoon!

Oh, you've come!

Oi! Well, sit down.

Oi, some tea!

Yes!

Here!

Oh!

Oi, Ohara-san has come.

Thanks.

Oi, have a seat here.

Ah, over, over. Yeah.

We've gotten all the actors together.

At last we can talk.

In the two years since I was last here, Suo-san wasn't in this office any longer.

About our talk on the factory the other day.

Well, we've put in a sewing machine over there.

You'll understand if you go over there...

...but it's mostly second-hand goods, which should be fine.

What is this?

I was avoiding having an association with these people so I wouldn't have to meet HIM again...

...but something like that wasn't necessary.

Eh?

What is it?

Ah...

Um, Union President!

Please let me come to the Association meetings again starting this month.

Oh? Oh, oh!

That's good.

Oh, come, come!

Kitamura-san!

What is it?

Let's have a drinking contest again.

No way.

I already smashed the potato at it, so there's no reason to.

I'm not a smashed potato!

You were a smashed potato.

"Let's not fight one another."

And, "let's not quarrel," isn't it? Got that?

You two will be joining forces and working together from here on.

He has the face of a potato.

Did you just call me a potato?

You're a potato face.

I want to make sure I heard that.

Potato!

Don't say potato anymore, geez.

Potatoes get drunk easily.

You're a smashed potato!

To Be Continued

That's why the potato this time around is a smashed potato...

Even smashed, they're good!

Carnation

End

Stylishly Dressed Photo Gallery

Newly-made One-piece Dress, Feeling Like an Actress (Showa 12 (1937), September, Osaka)