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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 20 "I Want To Protect You" Episode 113

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 Naoko Kawasaki Asami

Ohara Satoko Yasuda Misako

Kitamura Tatsuo Hosshan.

よろこび映す日の為

Yorokobi utsusu hi no tame

Reflecting my rapture of this day

Kinomoto Eisaku Kōmoto Masahiro

Saitō Genta Kaku Tomohiro Yoshimura\h Doitaiji Ozawa\h Noda Nironari

Kinomoto Setsuko Nishimura Ayako

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

Showa 36 (1961) May

Starting in April, Naoko had opened her shop in a department store in Tokyo...

...and would call in every night by phone.

Now, let's eat.

Naoko again?

Yeah.

Itadakimasu.

Is she okay with the phone charges?

Yeah... "I make sure to pay the landlord," she says.

Still, every day like that...

It must be prohibitively expensive.

Well, would it?

Yeah. Mom tell her, "that's enough already."

Even so...

...if she suddenly wasn't able to do that every night...

...I think she might lose a great deal of heart about her work.

You're surprisingly worried about Naoko-neechan, aren't you?

Shouldn't you...

...change your mind and go to Tokyo and see how she is?

Me?

Yeah.

Well... That girl would get a perverse joy if I told her, "I'm coming."

But the thing is, the next day I was trying to reach her by phone.

It's been a long time since I last came to Tokyo...

...and I want to go do some sightseeing and take a look around your shop.

Yeah.

Eh?

I'm fine with that.

Eh?!

Are you sure about me coming?

Yeah. I'll be waiting.

There was no mistaking that she had lost a lot of heart.

These days, the "Kodama" Limited Express was running...

...so it only took seven hours now to get to Tokyo.

Tokyo, Ginza

The world was becoming truly useful.

Thank you very much for visiting our stores today.

Let us now guide you through this week's entertainment.

Ohara-kun! Ohara-kun!

Yes.

I told you, didn't I?!

About hanging up that scrap iron on the inside like this.

Well, but this is...

Never mind that and take it down!

I don't know if it's art or whatever, but it's squalid! It's an eyesore!

This is a department store.

The things in this store should be more dignified!

Help me.

I told you so.

Right?

What is it?!

Shall I come back later...

Thinking that, I took a turn around the store and returned.

Thanks very much.

The Manager here is attempting to get Naoko to speak in the Tokyo dialect

Thank YOU very much!

Thanks very much.

Thank YOU!

He's even angrier now...

Thanks very much!

Thank YOU very much!

Thanks very much.

Can't be helped...

Because of that, I ended up making three trips around the department store.

Good afternoon.

Welcome.

Mom!

Here...

Naoko is always under your care.

Mom.

Ahh... Ala ala, I've arrived at long last.

What is this; you're really late. Did you stop off somewhere?

No.

Nothing like that.

Even so, this is a truly wonderful store!

Yes!

I guess.

Ah!

Well...

...my boss has acknowledged my talent, so I can do as I like.

Yeah...

I see.

Yeah.

Good afternoon.

Ah, welcome...

Welcome in.

Um... I had these pantaloons made here the other day.

Yes. Thank you very much.

I'd like them remade a little.

Eh...

Why?

Because they're difficult to walk in.

You took my money for a defective product!

What nerve you have!

Ah, I don't believe this!

Lemme see.

Let me see it!

You were reckless with these.

You sewed the velveteen like this.

And, if you put the pockets right here, of course they'd be hard to walk in.

For now, let's deal with these pockets.

And then, right around here...

You don't understand, Mom.

Huh?

Those pockets aren't crucial.

In this design...

...this was the first time it was even finished with those pockets.

Fool.

You can't have clothes with unfinished pockets.

The person who wears these clothes...

...has to feel that they are finished right from the start!

Look...

...redo these.

I'll help you.

Look, how many servings of hand rolled sushi should I order? Three servings?

Why just three servings? I'll have five servings!

Eh? Are you sure?!

Whoa...

Don't worry!

Their hand-rolled sushi is the highest grade. I'll treat you to the second or third level ones!

Thank you very much!

Thank you very much!

That's okay.

It's an Oba-chan's duty to make sure young people don't starve by feeding them lots.

Thank you very much!

By the way, Naoko.

Were my artworks popular?

Ah! Ala, did you make those?

Ah, did you see them, Oba-chan?

I saw them, I saw them!

Eh? Mom, when did you see them?

Ala?

Was it just my imagination?

Eh...?

That idiot Manager told me...

..."don't hang that dirty scrap iron in here."

Eh?

Really?

Yeah.

That Manager just doesn't get it.

Were you able to understand my work?

Well... To me, all I could see was scrap iron, though.

Ala...

So when did you see them, Mom?

Even so...

...how do I put it, I'm slightly smarter about those things these days.

Ah...

Because I didn't find out about those kind of things as a young girl...

...I feel my experiences would limit me to just making mistakes about them.

Ehh...

In short...

...it's like a foreign language to me.

I may not understand it, but I know there are people who can understand it.

And...

...when the person who made it says...

...that they've put their true feelings into it...

...that much I can understand.

Mmm...

I think that scrap iron has your true feelings in it.

Thank you very much.

That's great, Genta.

Ah!

Say...

What sort of dreams do you guys hold for the future?

I guess that would be as a pret-a-porter designer.

Me, too.

I guess it'll be in pret-a-porter?

Yes.

As a designer of pret-a-porter, I want people all over the world to wear the clothes I design.

All over the world?

Yes.

Ma'am, pret-a-porter can make people all over the world our customers.

Ah...!

I'd like to see Tokyo as Paris is now.

That's true.

Yeah.

If Tokyo releases popular fashions...

...it would become interesting when we open up collections the way Paris designers do.

A Tokyo Collection, huh?

Yeah.

That would be nice!

The world!

I put in the order for the prime hand-rolled sushi.

I felt that the shape of...

...these young people's dreams was vast.

No matter how high up it might be...

...they would fly up to meet it.

Since such big dreams can be broken so easily...

I pray, please, please protect them.

Ehh...

Genta

Mom, make one for Ozawa-kun.

For now I had to fill their stomachs with plenty to eat.

I guess that's an Oba-chan's duty.

Only Nao-chan's is no good.

Coffee Shop

Taiko

Oh! Look, you're the Master here now?

That's right! Thankfully, every day has been fun.

Oh, what about your son?

Ah, about that.

He's working at an electrical store in Nipponbashi.

Oh, he's gone to Nipponbashi!

That's great!

That's true.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

Ito-chan!

Sato-chan!

Sir. Can we get some pancakes and hot chocolate?

Okay!

Coming right up.

What did you want to talk about?

Can you...

...entrust me with Satoko?

What are you talking about?

I was thinking I could raise Satoko to be a first-class designer.

What?

Look, I told you I'll be in pret-a-porter from here on, right?

And, I've been trying out many things.

Yet even so, they aren't working out.

Everyone else has hurried and made contracts with the famous places already.

That's true...

Since...

...I can't join up with a famous name now...

...I want to, conversely, round up young people...

...and then train them to become first-class designers!

And that's where Satoko comes in?

That's right!

Fool.

Why?

Look you, you're just using whatever you think you can grab ahold of.

I'm not just grasping at straws here!

She's your daughter and has your character, right?

But, I...

Yeah.

Are you interested?

Hmm.

I am.

Oh!

No!

I don't want her in dressmaking.

Why? She just said "I'm interested" just now, didn't she?

Have you tried drawing even one design on your own yet?

Don't be so naive. Don't say such halfway things!

Well, even so...

Sir!

Where are those pancakes?

Ah, forgive me!

These are surprisingly difficult to cook.

To Be Continued

Carnation

End

Stylishly Dressed Photo Gallery

5 Tokyo Department Store Intepreters (Circa Showa 30 (1955), Yuraku-cho)