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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

Final Week "Your Love Is Alive" Episode 147

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

Yamaguchi Takae Takeuchi Miyako

重く濡らした瞼は今

Omoku nurashita mabuta wa ima

My eyelids, heavily soaked, are right now

Kawase Yuzuru Kawaoka Daijirō Yoshioka Einosuke \h Shigeyama Ippei

Mizuno Kōji Kozasa Masatsugu Shinoyama Makoto \h Nakayama Takuya Fumiko\h Senda Toshiko

Ohara Chiyo (photo) Asau Yumi Ohara Haru (photo) \h Shoji Terue Ohara Masaru (photo) \h Surugu Tarou

よろこび映す日の為

Yorokobi utsusu hi no tame

Reflecting my rapture of this day

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

Ohara Zensaku (photo) Kobayashi Kaoru

Heisei 17 (2005) May

The salon on the second floor was completed.

What'll you have?

A beer?

Sensei! Please, it's time to get ready!

Say, Taka-chan!

I just thought of something good.

A kimono makeover class.

Huh?

Up on the second floor.

It's too nice up there to let it go to waste.

Call on one person after another and tell them about it.

Please take a good long look at this.

When could we do that?

I wanted to do it, so I did it.

On the second floor. Go ahead.

Nadeshiko Meeting Please come this way

Excuse me.

The second floor.

My!

Wonderful!

Welcome!

Come in! What'll you have?

Thank you very much!

Sensei, good afternoon.

Ala, President, welcome!

These are some guests of mine...

I'm Morimoto!

I'm Sakita. Sensei, let me shake your hand!

Me, too!

Ala! I'm so happy! I've been your fan forever!

Really? Thank you.

Everyone...

...welcome to the Nadeshiko Meeting.

I am your lecturer, Ohara Itoko.

Please, let's get along together.

One day I was going through my closets...

...when a ton of old kimonos came out.

I thought nothing of throwing out the Western clothes, but I just couldn't throw out the kimonos.

Even so, there are very few opportunities to put one on anymore.

Then I thought it probably wasn't any different at your homes...

...and that all of you had kimonos buried in your drawers as well.

That's right!

So please look over there.

And then, here...

Whaa! Beautiful!

This was my best kimono...

...turned into a dress.

As you know...

...the thickness of kimono fabric and Western clothing fabric is different.

In addition, compared to Western clothes...

...kimonos have very complicated patterns.

I puzzled over that for a long time, too, before finding a method for doing this at last.

You could say this is like a trade secret...

...but if I kept it stingily to myself, then drawers across Japan...

...would only just fill up with kimonos.

If I can bring as many kimonos back to life as I can...

...even just one day sooner, then I'll be very happy.

Truth is...

...my father was a kimono dry-goods seller.

I can't!

I guess I just can't do it, Sensei!

Huh?

I just can't bring myself to take scissors to my kimonos.

I can understand that.

You could say that is the mystique of kimonos, Sensei.

Eh?

However rich the customers might be...

...when it comes to their kimonos, everyone definitely doesn't want to be rough on them.

That's true, huh!

I understand. For me too, there should always be rice and kimonos, no matter what.

Ah, I see. Rice and kimonos, huh?

Ala, just plunge on in!

Okay!

One, two... Go!

You guys do it, too!

Go on! Get going!

One, two!

Even so...

...they made some really nice sarongs, didn't they?

Yeah. They did.

This'll be a good place when it's time for the danjiri, won't it?

By the way...

...how's it going with Yuzuru?

Is he feeling a little better?

Ah.

Even more so than when his mother died...

...he's all but given up this time around.

Well then, you bring him around.

Next time, okay!

Yes.

Last month, Yuzuru's Dad had passed away.

Ala, he's come.

Sensei!

Ehh!

I'm sorry.

Well, I've been slow about...

...coming to see you, Sensei.

Ala, ala. And such a big man, too, geez!

This cloth is damp, isn't it?

Where's there a clean towel?

Ah, no... A damp cloth'll be fine, Sensei.

Really?

Thank you.

Well... I'm beaten.

I was finally getting over when it was my mother's time...

...but this time around it's different.

It must be because of my age.

Huh?

How old are you right now?

I'm forty-five.

After you've lived twice that long, then you can use such words.

Yes.

Look...

This is no different from the time with your mother.

Only by...

...increasing the strength you have within yourself...

...can you shoulder the burdens of your company and your family.

That must be your response to these anxieties and fears.

You're right...

You're exactly right.

Still...

...it's a path that everyone has to take.

Yes.

What's with you?

Eh?

You have nothing to cry over yet.

Well... Will I have to do that, too?

Huh?

I'll have to...

...follow along that path someday too, won't I?

Well, your Dad isn't immortal, is he?

It's painful somehow.

Ah! You still have a long ways to go yet.

Eh?

Hey you. Try to remember your Dad.

If I recall, the Chairman then was 65 or 66.

He was that old...

...when his beloved wife passed away first...

...so think of how desolated he must have been.

Even so, for the sake of his idiot son and his employees...

...he's bore up under it somehow...

...and supported all of you until the very, very end.

You need to emulate that wonderful Dad of yours!

That's impossible.

Huh?

I don't have that sort of strength.

Fool!

No one has that sort of strength.

You just have no choice...

...but to connect and connect...

...all of your weak points together somehow.

It's the same for everyone.

Look at my boyfriends.

There's ninety-one of them, right?

By gathering together like that...

...and comforting one another...

...human beings can manage.

There's no reason why you guys won't manage either.

Don't worry.

Sensei.

Huh?

Someday...

...if my wife passes away before me...

...please let me join as one of Sensei's boyfriends, too.

Look you. Just how old would I have to be then?

130 years old or so?

Well, drink up!

Straighten yourselves out, you fools.

Is this...

...that gold-foil sponge like like before?

That's right.

It's good!

Goil-foil sponge cake?

They don't put that in it anymore, huh?

I guess that was just the fashion of those times?

Of the Bubble Economy, right?

That's it.

They would put in far more than was necessary.

It's delicious!

Are you finished with placing the ashes?

Yes. Thanks to you.

Say, Yuzuru.

By peeling back all the glitter...

...and revealing the true nature of the forty year-old man that you are...

...I think you shine far more...

...than you ever did before.

To Be Continued

Carnation

End

Stylishly Dressed Photo Gallery

Designer's Favorite One-piece Dress (Heisei 19 (2007), in Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku)