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20 years before the Meiji era
about the end of the Edo

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{\an8}KYOTO 1861 (FIRST YEAR OF BUNKYU)

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period, Asa was born the
second daughter of the

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Imai family, the wealthiest
merchant family in Kyoto

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ASA IMAI

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Why was it already decided who Sis and
I will marry from the time we were born?

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In the era that Asa was
born, marriages in large

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merchant families weren't
decided between the

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parties involved... They were
decided between the families.

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ASA'S OLDER SISTER HATSU

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You may wonder about
Asa and this man,

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Shinjiro being engaged,
but in those days,

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a big difference in age like
this wasn't unusual.

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You fool!
What are you doing?

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You're a merchant's daughter.

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How could you use our
precious abacus like that?

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I'm sorry!

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ASA'S FIANCEE SHINJIRO SHIROOKA

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Asa ga Kita

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Week 1
"The Little Fiancée"
Episode 2

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Original Story:
Chieko FURUKAWA

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Screenwriter:
Mika OMORI

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Music by:
Yuuki HAYASHI

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Theme Song: "365 Nichi no Kamihikouki"
Sung by: AKB48

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Narrator:
Keiko SUGIURA

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Asa Imai:
Rio SUZUKI

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Shinjiro Shirooka:
Hiroshi TAMAKI

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Rie Imai:
Shinobu TERAJIMA

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Tadaoki Imai:
Takeshi MASU

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Tadamasa Imai:
Yoichi HAYASHI

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Shokichi Shirooka:
Masaomi KONDO

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Is he my fiancée?

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I'm sorry you had
to see that.

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{\an8}SHINJIRO'S FATHER OWNER
OF KANO-YA SHOKICHI SHIROOKA

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She's going to marry into our family, so

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it's better for us to see
her in her true form.

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ASA'S MOTHER RIE

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Say something, Asa.

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I like the click-click thing
better than the koto.

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The click-click thing makes
a nice sound, too.

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It doesn't just go
click-click, it...

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That's enough!

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Just be quiet.

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Asa.

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Yes?

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How's your butt?

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Asa! Where are you going?

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What a thing to say?

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After being hit that much, I
thought it must hurt to sit quietly...

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I'll bring her right back.

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No... That's fine.

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That's fine.

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Being put in a position
like that on her first

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meeting with her fiancée,
must be so embarrassing.

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She may be only 11,
but that's how females are...

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ASA'S FATHER TADAOKI

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I'm terribly sorry.

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What a rude person!

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Asa...

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Isn't your fiancée
good-looking?

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Not at all!

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How dare he talk
about my butt.

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Butt...?

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I hate him.

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This was Asa's first encounter
with her fiancée, Shinjiro.

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Just as we've heard, she's
a high spirited young girl.

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Even more so than the
rumors we've heard.

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Should you be so carefree?

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After you marry that tomboy,
do you think you can keep her in check?

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That would be impossible,
wouldn't it?

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Impossible?

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The abacus is a tool of our business.

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How could a merchants
daughter use that tool to play with?

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I'm sorry...

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I apologize to the
click-click thing, too.

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How long are you going
to be a tomboy?

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At this rate, I can't let you get
married with any peace of mind.

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I wonder what the Kano-ya
people thought of you.

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Dad...

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What is it?

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Will you teach me how to
use this click-click thing?

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I want to use this like the
people in the shop and

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Kyutaro use it.
I think it's cool.

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She's strange.

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{\an8}ASA'S YOUNGER BROTHER KYUTARO

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I don't like using the abacus at all.

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ASA'S GRANDFATHER TADAMASA

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And I want to learn how to read
the book you're teaching Kyutaro to read.

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It sounds like a poem, so
it might be fun to read

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And I want to try on Kyutaro's
sumo wrestler's loincloth, too.

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A girl doesn't have to
do things like that.

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The daughter of the Imai
family doesn't need to

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learn the abacus
or read books.

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And wearing a sumo wrestler's
loincloth is absolutely unthinkable.

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But why? Why...?

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I know that you've been
sneaking into Kyutaro's

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room, and secretly looking
at his books.

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As of today, you're forbidden
to look at any books for learning.

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Do you understand?

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No... I don't want
to do that.

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It's only natural.

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What's important to a
girl is etiquette and

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accomplishments to make her
husband happy at home.

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You can say impudent
things like that when

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you can play the koto
a little better.

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Answer me!

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Okay. I'm sorry.

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Tadaoki...

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As usual, your lectures
are totally boring.

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Nitpicking at such
little details...

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People are saying that
the young master of

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the Imai family works as
hard as a head clerk.

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Father!

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Grandpa.

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In a way, what you're
saying is right, but

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people can't always be right.

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If you say the right thing, and
people take it on face value

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that it's the right thing, then
being right only makes them

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so angry, they won't listen
to the right thing.

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Father...

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It's been a while, hasn't it?

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It sure has.

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Are you done lecturing her?

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Then I'll borrow Asa.

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Let's go, Asa. He gave his
permission. Let's go.

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Now that I'm here, you can
do whatever you want.

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Can I really do what I want?

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That's right.

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Can I sumo wrestle?

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Go ahead

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Can I climb a tree?

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Go ahead, hut in exchange,
climb it better than a monkey.

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That's great.
I love you, Grandpa.

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Asa!

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Dad will scold you again!

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Get down!

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I'm going to climb it, too.

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Asa's grandfather Tadamasa,
retired a long time ago,

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and had been spending all
his days in Sagano with

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his hobby of noh chanting.

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But whenever he came to visit,
he often played with Asa.

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I can't believe this.

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I couldn't climb up there.

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Asa's so cool.

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Asa? What can you
see from there?

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I can see Mt. Hiei, Mt. Daimonji...
I can see it all from here.

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I finally made it.

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It's been a while since
I climbed a tree...

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It feels good, doesn't it?

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It must feel good to
ride that red cloud.

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That's the look...

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I like you when
you're smiling.

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You do?

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But there are things you
can't laugh at, aren't there?

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I don't want to grow up like this,
and become Shinjiro's wife in Osaka.

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That's not good.

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But in these times when
the Imai family doesn't

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have money, and Tadaoki
and the others are

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struggling, so it's for the
sake of the family.

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Even if it's for the sake
of the family, why...

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Why do women have to be given away
like summer gifts and year-end gifts?

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There's something
wrong, after all.

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I'm sorry, but I can't be
like Sis, and just accept

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things because that's
just how they are.

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You're great, after all.

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People will just go along
with traditions because

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they've been around for
so long, and just go

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along with the flow, saying
it's the right thing to do.

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That's easy to do. But you
stop and ask why...

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That's why you're great.

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You think so?

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With Dad, I have to
be like this.

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People who ask why are the ones
who will change the ways of society.

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No matter who tries to
silence you or points

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their finger at you, just face
forward and forge ahead.

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That's what I want.

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Do you understand?

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Okay. Shall we sing?

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Just hop ahead
like a rabbit.

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He's spoiling her again.

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Father really loves
Asa, doesn't he?

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They're both oddballs,
so they get along.

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In the past....

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{\an8}SEVEN YEARS AGO

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I just had a great idea.

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How about raising
Asa as a boy?

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As a boy?

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That's right.

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Even if you have to give
Hatsu away as a bride,

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just think of Asa as a
boy, and don't marry

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her off, and have
her take a bride.

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And we'll have Asa take
over the Imai family.

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Even if it was a joke,
I couldn't laugh.

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It really isn't anything
to laugh about.

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If she could be a little more feminine
like Hatsu, it would be great.

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Are you doing the books
yourself again?

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Thank you for your
hard work.

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Asa's father, Tadaoki
was devoted to work.

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But during this time even
the Imai family known as

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the wealthiest merchant in
Kyoto, was facing a crisis.

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Thank you.

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I'm counting on your
continued patronage.

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15 years before the Meiji
era it was considered

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the samurai era, but the
Tokugawa government

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and the feudal lords were
financially strapped...

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So they were borrowing huge
amounts of money from the merchants.

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It's such a waste to lend money
that we won't ever get back.

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What's a waste?

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I don't know. Dad
loves to economize.

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Times like this can't
go on much longer.

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No, never mind.

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Then one day after
Asa turned 12...

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Don't make noise
when you walk.

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What did you want to
talk to us about?

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I'm going to Osaka from now...

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Osaka?

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That's right.

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I have business there,
so I'm going to visit

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a number of money
changers there.

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You haven't met your fiancée,
Sobei of Sanouji-ya, have you?

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No...

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Come with me.

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You, too, Asa.

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Go and greet the people
at Kano-ya again.

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You want me to go too?

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I don't want to go.

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All right.

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How will Hatsu and Asa's
first journey to Osaka turn out?