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Ah, Taka-chan!

Yes?

I'll be going to Naoko's Show in Tokyo tomorrow.

Ohara Itoko (72 years old)

Yes.

I'll be taking her with me, so please reserve two tickets for us on the Shinkansen.

Understood.

Eh?

I don't want to go.

Why not?

I detest Shows.

No! It's best if you come.

I have a mountain of gifts to take with me.

You can carry the luggage.

What a pain...

The Ohara family precept is, "Those who don't work, don't eat."

So if you don't work, you don't get fed.

Don't worry.

Yūko absolutely won't be coming.

Ala?

Is that right?

Yeah.

Those girls would rather die...

...than see the other's Shows.

Ah...

A blood feud, huh?

I suppose.

A blood feud.

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 23 "Don't Get Confused" Episode 129

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 Natsuki Mari

Ohara Naoko Kawasaki Asami

重く濡らした瞼は今

Omoku nurashita mabuta wa ima

My eyelids, heavily soaked, are right now

Yamaguchi Takae Takeuchi Miyako Ohara Rika \h Kojima Fujiko

Kawase Yuzuru Kawaoka Daijirō Yoshioka Einosuke \h Shigeyama Ippei

Johnny Asari Yousuke Yoshimura\h Doitaiji Ozawa \h Noda Nironari

よろこび映す日の為

Yorokobi utsusu hi no tame

Reflecting my rapture of this day

Mizuno Kōji Kozasa Masatsugu Real Estate Agents\h Masuda Hidekiko \h Tatsu Jun'ichi Shinoyama Makoto \h Nakayama Takuya

Shirakawa Nanako Murakami Haruna Daisuke\h Morishita Warabetai Shūhei\h Nishimura Ryōumi

Ohara Itoko (photo) Ono Machiko Ohara Chiyo (photo) \h Asau Yumi Ohara Yūko (photo) \h Niiyama Chiharu Ohara Satoko (photo)\h Yasuda Misako

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 (photo) Kondō Masaomi Yoshida Natsu (photo) \h Kuriyama Chiaki Kinomoto Eisaku (photo) \h Kōmoto Masahiro Matsuda Megumi (photo) \h Rokkaku Seiji

Kitamura Tatsuo (photo) Hosshan. Haraguchi Takeshi (photo) \h Tsukamoto Shin'ya Sae (photo) \h Kurotani Tomoka Yasuoka Tamae (photo) \h Hamada Mari

Yasuoka Taizō (photo) Suga Takamasa Yasuoka Yaeko (photo) \h Tamaru Maki Kioka Yasuo (photo) \h Uesugi Shōzō Yasuoka Kansuke (photo) \h Onoue Hiroyuki

Masako (photo) Genkaku Yūko Saitō Genta (photo) \h Kaku Tomohiro Kioka Miyo (photo) \h Iijima Junko Kinomoto Setsuko (photo)\h Nishimura Ayako Yasuoka Tarō (photo) \h Kuramoto Akira

In Showa 60 (1985)...

...one great designer after another started appearing in Japan.

Called the "Designer's Brand Boom"...

...Saitō Genta, Yoshimura-kun and Ozawa-kun...

...as well as the three sisters had set up stores across the towns...

...tightly packed up against each other...

...and it was said these youngsters were advancing fashion forward every day.

It's a time when everyone can enjoy dressing up freely...

...so I couldn't understand why...

...this child would only stubbornly wear jerseys.

Five minutes to go!

Does this feel okay?

More upright.

The lines should be straight.

Check it more.

Yes.

Her shadow should be thicker.

Yes.

Here we go!

Yes, let's go!

Yes, let's go, go ahead!

Yes, let's go!

Yes, let's go, go ahead!

Go ahead!

To celebrate the success of the Show! Kanpai!

Kanpai!

Congrats! Congrats!

Whaa, it's Johnny!

Obviously!

Thank you.

Nanaka, it's been awhile. You're as pretty as ever today.

Thank you!

Really pretty. We'll have to have dinner sometime.

Dinner?

Right?

What we're talking about right now is...

OK! Let's take a photo.

I guess these Shows are fun.

It's just like a danjiri! Right!

Grandma!

Ah... Shū-chan! Eh!

Naoko's Oldest Son Shūhei

Let me look at you.

Have you gotten even more handsome?

Rika?

Huh?

I figured it was you, Rika!

I thought the brat had disappeared.

What's with that head of yours?

Why are you in a jersey?

None of your business.

Are you in a gang?

Oh well, I don't mind.

But listen.

Once you've decided on jerseys, go with jerseys.

Definately don't take them off halfway. Got that?

Huh?

Well, when I would only wear my school sailor uniform, your mother would laugh at me.

Naoko, it's about time for us to go to the next place.

Next? Where are you going?

Disneyland.

Huh? Right now?

For now you should go to the hotel and get some rest.

Well Grandma, I'm already sleepy.

No!

It's still 5pm! If we go back to the hotel now, we won't be able to.

Let's go!

Eh?

Wait, Mom!

For the next three days, I led her around Tokyo during the day.

Rika now was sleeping soundly at nights.

Rika, rise and shine! It's morning!

Kishishiro Company

Um, is there something about my store?

Ah... This is your store?

Congratulations on...

Discount Tickets Store Kishishiro Company

...opening your store!

Ah.

Thanks.

What kind of store is it?

Shinoyama Makoto

A discount ticket store.

Discount tickets?

What are you selling?

Well, coupons and tickets.

Huh?

I'm sorry. I'm opening the store.

Ah, forgive me. I'm bothering you.

Tickets...

A ticket shop?

I didn't understand that business at all.

He's really twenty-one years old.

Really. And with the Tigers?

Ah, g'morning!

G'morning!

G'morning!

Victory!

Yeah!

Congrats!

Congratulations!

The shopping district these days was in an uproar over changes to the stores.

Ohara Dressmaking Store

Hachijin Real Estate

The place that had once been an Onkonomiyaki restaurant...

Onkonomiyaki - pizza-like pancake fried with various ingredients

...had been converted into a real estate agency in the last month.

At this time, why were the young men glittering gaudily with so much gold?

Because they're so profitable.

Real estate agencies are?

Even now...

...my older brother is making sky-high profits at it.

Ah...

If Kitamura had lived long enough, he'd be making a good thing out of this now, too.

He really had to go and die while his life was just one step away from it.

Even so...

...Kitamura was already huge as a manufacturer!

True, but have you seen his clothes?

I don't know how cheap they are, but they're gaudy!

Well still, they sell very well, so that's okay.

Ah!

After the war ended...

...everyone but everyone had become successful.

It was just a good era for it.

Even so...

...it's amazing that every one of your three daughters has become famous designers.

Well, I think those kids worked hard for it.

And it was also thanks to Japan becoming wealthy.

Please look at us today.

We have a study group for bellflower kimonos today.

By the way, to return to the story about your daughters...

Well, I've talked enough about my daughters.

Huh?

Somehow all of you come to ask me about them...

...but honestly, I have no memories at all about them.

I was a worthless mother who was always leaving their care up to others.

Ah.

Now if you asked me about my own work, I'd talk your ear off.

Taka-chan?

Yes.

Bring some food for this person.

Yes.

No, no. Um, Sensei!

Sensei, Takada-san has come.

Ah, it's been awhile. Hello.

Well, it has been a long time.

Ala!

It's been a long time. Please take your time.

Ah, Itoko-sensei!

Ala! If it isn't that fool from the Kawase Company.

What are you saying, Sensei?

I haven't been that much of a fool recently.

Instead of just playing around, you should help around your store.

Your father was grieving over that the other day.

No, no, no. I have been properly helping out.

Really?

Hello! This is the first time I've seen you.

Yoshioka Einosuke

Well... You have a kimono store in Kyoto.

I feel it is indeed great that young people are getting into kimonos.

Well, I'm so happy!

Kawase Yuzuru

Yoshioka Einosuke

I have to tell my father that I was praised by Itoko-sensei.

Sensei, this guy is heir to a long-established store, too. Fifteen generations.

No, no, unless I earn a few more points from my father, he'll disinherit me.

Ah, my!

This world really is filled with nothing but fools!

Sensei, would it be okay to discuss some things with you?

No!

Why's that?

"Discuss this, discuss that." I don't like young people today...

...who, with their slightly soft faces, go around depending upon others.

Well, but...!

No, I said! Go away!

I hoped I had made that clear.

Good afternoon! Excuse me!

Welcome!

Is the Sensei in?

As expected though, this fool hadn't listened to a thing I said.

Just five minutes. I'm busy.

I already understand that.

Well...

...I heard this story about you from Yuzuru.

It was you, Sensei, wasn't it?

That during the war, it was thanks to you that Yuzuru's great-grandfather was saved, right?

When he had those hundred rolls of fabric with a gold thread in it, you managed to sell it, right?

That's an old story.

I was so moved by that. I thought how there were such wonderful people in this world.

Serve the guest first.

You'd better hurry; your five minutes are almost up.

Ah... that's right!

Um... I have a little something I wanted to show you.

Interesting fabric, isn't it?

Itoko-sensei!

Please! Please save me!

What from?

I...

...made a mistake and purchased one hundred rolls of this!

Huh?!

Again with the hundred rolls.

To Be Continued

Carnation

End

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