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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 23 "Don't Be Lead Astray" Episode 131

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 Yūko Niiyama Chiharu

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

Mizuno Kōji Kozasa Masatsug Real Estate Agents \h Masuda Hidekiko \h Tatsu Jun'ichi

よろこび映す日の為

Yorokobi utsusu hi no tame

Reflecting my rapture of this day

Shinoyama Makoto Nakayama Takuya Kamiyama Masashi \h Enokida Takato

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

Yuzuru's Father Sagawa Mitsuo

Huh? A fight?!

Tell that to Yūko.

That fool, Rika.

Being raised as a princess, there's no reason for her to be in a gang and getting into fights.

Make sure that blockhead knows how dangerous that is!

Ohara Itoko (72 years old)

Somehow that girl hasn't eaten since yesterday...

...and just sits staring off into space in her room...

Yeah.

Since she won't cry or scream, that makes me feel even more sorry for her...

Sorry for her?!

Ha! Mom really has gotten old.

Huh?!

For a yankee who's lost and come home...

...she's just being a fool by playing the role of a fool.

What's to be sorry over?

What'll happen to her if you say such naive things?!

Such a scary aunt... Who on earth gave birth to her?

I pray that Rika's injuries aren't that bad.

Please help her get better as soon as possible.

Sensei.

What is it?

We have a guest.

Don't surprise me like that!

I just called out to you, though...

Your voice is too low!

How can you have such a big body but such a tiny voice?!

Sensei, I really want to apologize for the other day.

Ah, well Sensei, I had also been told by my parents...

...that story about the fabric with the gold thread in it...

...so against my better judgement I told this guy, "Go discuss it once with the Sensei."

Look, Yuzuru.

Yes?

Your great-grandfather...

...and this boy's story together...

...would make your great-grandfather cry.

Ah...

Your predecessor...

...worked with all his might at his business.

So it was just by chance that he got stuck holding some wonderful fabric due to the war.

Since I was also a dressmaking shop...

...I wracked my brains trying to help him out.

It was an age where it wasn't easy to sell Western clothes.

Ah...

...that's right.

Your story is different from mine, now isn't it?

Yes.

Going out and buying things at random...

...and then irresponsibly making a contract for them.

Now you want it so that your father won't scold you.

You should be relieved you're in an age where you can sell things like that.

I've been spoiled.

You should first...

...rack your own brain and think up something.

Rather than me...

...isn't maybe what comes out of your own head...

...what will give you the wisdom to help you deal with this era?

People who just take advice and finish things that way...

...are nothing but a waste!

It really is as you say.

Still, Sensei.

I have been racking my brain as well.

What's this?

It's been dyed.

And?

It's now in three colors.

And?

Eh?

Look you...

Have you REALLY been racking your brains?!

Did you think that just by making them three colors I'd say, "This is it. Three colors'll do it?!"

You're just treating this business with contempt! Leave, you fools!

Get out, get out of here already!

Leave! Hey! Get out!

Kyaa...

Gold foil sponge cake!

Hey, Kō-chan, Kō-chan! Come take a look at this!

It's dark and gold!

It's sparkling!

How about cutting here?

Please cut mine so it's bigger.

How much should we have of this?

Ah Sensei, we've received some high-quality sweets again.

Why did you do that?

You had a hit coming to you this time around.

Sensei, please look.

It's a sparkling sponge cake!

Why a gold-leaf sponge cake?

It's because they over-indulge in such luxuries that they're so irresponsible!

Delicious!

Rika, want to eat some gold-foil sponge cake?

It's dark and gold.

It's sparkling.

Eat some.

Is it delicious?

Not talking is no good.

When you're in pain or tired...

...you mustn't keep it to yourself.

When someone does such a thing...

You musn't just endure it by yourself.

You mustn't just mind it and not talk.

Okay?

Nii-chan, have some.

Huh?

It's gold-leaf sponge cake.

What's that?

It's sponge cake with gold leaf put in it.

I don't know why they put that in it though.

Ah, thank you very much for this.

It's surprisingly delicious.

Um...

Is that girl okay? The one who looks like she might be your granddaughter.

Ah...

Thank you.

She is my granddaughter.

Did you want to eat some gold-leaf sponge cake, too?

Just a minute.

It's sparkling.

You like sparkling things, don't you?

Huh?

Yo.

What is it?

Well...

Let's go play.

I've stopped.

Why?

I have to get up early in the morning tomorrow.

For school?

To help out my Grandma.

Hmm...

Well, that's fine.

See ya.

So long.

Bye-bye.

Ala.

You got up by yourself?

Yeah.

Ohara Dressmaking Store

Make them straight.

Ahh... looks so good!

Here Rika-chan, put out the chawanmushi.

Chawanmushi - an egg custard dish using the seeds of ginkgo and is used as an appetizer

They're hot!

Holding them by the top isn't as hot.

By the top...

The chopsticks are reversed.

Here, see?

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon. Welcome!

Thank you for waiting.

Come in, come in.

Sensei, here. It's just a trifle, though.

Ala!

Gold-leaf sponge cake!

Ah, you know of it?

Yuzuru brought us some the other day.

Everyone cried out in delight over it.

This person is Yuzuru's father.

In other words, the grandson of the late proprietor...

...of that fabric with gold thread.

Sensei.

Yuzuru received another great sermon from you the other day.

Well... that was wrong of me.

When I thought about it, that boy, for the sake of his friend...

...had brought something wonderfully good for us to eat.

No, no, no.

I'm grateful for that.

With my fool of a son being so unreliable...

...my wife is also so worried about leaving him the company she can't become a Buddha in peace.

Did the first year anniversary of her death the other day go well?

Thankfully, there's been a delay in that.

It really has been a year.

Even so, well...

I wondered how I'd get along, being a single man, but well, I've gotten by up somehow.

Other than when it comes to my idiot son, that is.

It's the truth!

Well...

...my son-in-law's a fool, too.

No, no, no, my son's got him beat in foolishness.

A man shouldn't eat meals alone.

Well, if it's stories of how fool daughters can be...

...then leave those to me.

So I would gather all the men whose wives had passed away first...

...and would make them a dinner like this.

My son's the same.

If he still exists in this world...

...please, let me meet him again at a place such as this.

That's what I thought.

To Be Continued

Carnation

End

Stylishly Dressed Photo Gallery

Classmates on an Excursion (Showa 51 (1976), at Kamakura)