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Wearing a long sleeve
kimono in this heat.

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What's a woman doing
standing around here?

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Out of the way!

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We finally meet again.

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You...!

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Who are you?

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I have a feeling that
I've met you before.

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What? You forgot me?

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I went through the trouble
of looking for you, and

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wrote to you from England.

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England? Letter?

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You're the one from Satsuma?

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That's right I'm Saisuke
Godai from Satsuma.

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What a surprise.

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That little tomboy turned
out to be so beautiful.

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Beautiful?

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Asa ga Kita

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Week 3
"A Visit From the Shinsengumi"
Episode 16

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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 Shirooka:
HARU

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Shinjiro Shirooka:
Hiroshi TAMAKI

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Rie Imai:
Shinobu TERAJIMA

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Sobei Mayuyama:
Tasuku EMOTO

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Saisuke Godai:
Dean FUJIOKA

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Kisuke:
Hiroki MIYAKE

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Gansuke:
Takaya YAMAUCHI

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Ume:
TOMOCHIKA

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Miwa:
Sumika NONO

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Kiku Mayuyama:
Hisako MANDA

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Eitatsu Mayuyama:
Tatsuro TATSUMI

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Hatsu Mayuyama:
Aoi MIYAZAKI

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So you live in Osaka now.

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I just came, so I don't
know anything at all.

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RICE EXCHANGE

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Coming to the Rice Exchange
dressed like that.

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Your outfit is just
as strange.

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So this is the Rice Exchange?

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I thought they were fighting
over something.

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What is that?

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That flag.

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That? It's letting them know
the market price.

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Market price?

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Edo, Kyoto, Otsu, Akamagasaki...
They all use the Osaka rice

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market price as their basis.

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In order to let them know
the price as soon as

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possible, besides sending
out messengers, on a

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on a nice day like this, they'll
wave a flag from up high

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like that to let people know
the market price.

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That's great, isn't it?

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What a surprise.

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Osaka is full of surprises.

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While I was out West, I thought
Japan was so small, but seeing

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this town, it still has spirit.

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Just looking at it is
exciting, isn't it?

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I feel like I could fly to Edo,
Otsu or Akamagasaki in my mind.

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I wish I could work with
spirit like that, too.

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Even if you turned into a beautiful
lady, inside you're still the same.

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Does that mean
I'm still a child?

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No! I meant it
in a good way.

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You're still the woman
I fell in love with.

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Live a good life... There will be
big changes coming to the world.

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The world will change?

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Miss Asa!

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We have to be
getting back.

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It's such a waste that
you're someone's wife.

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Let's meet again
somewhere.

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Wait a minute!

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I want to ask you
more questions.

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That's right. Tell me
your name again.

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It's Saisuke Godai.

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Remember this time.

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Miss Asa! Could that man be
the one who wrote you that letter?

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That's right. Why?

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Why did Mr. Godai
send me a letter?

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What does he do?

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I don't know what's going on...

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What did he mean by the
world will change?

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At the time, Asa didn't know...

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The vortex of the era would
keep growing bigger and

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bigger within that year...

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Engulfing all of Japan
like a storm.

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6 MONTHS LATER 1867
(3RD YEAR OF KEIO)

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Excuse me.

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Welcome!

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Mother Imai...

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I'm sorry for dropping
by all of a sudden.

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I had business nearby.

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Mom?

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Hatsu!

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I'm so happy. Why are you
here all of a sudden?

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You must be tired.
Hurry, and come inside.

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You've gained a little bit
of weight, haven't you?

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I'm eating nothing but
good food every day.

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But I still haven't been
blessed with a child.

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It hasn't been a year
since you married.

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Don't let it bother you.

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Thank you. Hearing you say that,
makes me feel a little better.

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How's Dad?

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How's Grandpa and Kyutaro?

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Everyone's fine.

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But...

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How's business here
at Sanouji-ya?

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Dad is having a really
hard time right now.

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So it must be hard even
here in Osaka...

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I was so worried that
there's a chance

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something should
happen here.

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Is that what you came
to ask about?

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Mother!

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You came all the way from Kyoto
just to ask about that...

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Thank you so much.

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I was just making
small talk.

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Is that right?

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In that case, you don't have
to hesitate, and answer her.

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Go ahead. Just tell her honestly
how things are here at Sanouji-ya.

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Mom... Just let it go.

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I don't know anything about
complicated things...

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I leave those things to my
husband and the head clerk.

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That's true. If you had a baby, you'd
have more things to do, wouldn't you?

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We leave the business
to the men here.

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What kind of small talk is that?

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Besides, even if we aren't
as prosperous as the

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Imai family, Sanouji-ya isn't
such a pitiful business that

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people from the outside
should be worried about.

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Pardon my rudeness.

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Mother... My mother has
always taught me that

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women shouldn't interfere
with business matters.

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She didn't come here
for that purpose.

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Hatsu!

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I see! Then don't you have something
else you want to talk about?

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If not, maybe you
should leave.

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Did you see Miss Asa yet?

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No...

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After telling Asa that women
shouldn't do things that are

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none of their business...
What am I doing here?

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Meanwhile, Asa was...

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Things haven't changed
between Shinjiro, but

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she's gotten close to all
the people in the store,

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and was spending her days as
any merchant's wife would.

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I finally finished it.

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I'm sorry you had to
mend my things.

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What are you saying?

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The young mistress is
everyone's mom.

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So it's to be expected.

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You sound like any Osaka
young mistress now.

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Thank you.

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But I'm worried...

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Always being back here
in the household,

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I can't feel any of the changes
in the world I heard about earlier.

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Thank you, Young Mistress.
You sewed this cute little

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cat on my favorite
undershirt.

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Gansuke...

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As a way for thanking
me for doing that...

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Will you teach me just a little bit
about the store without telling, Father?

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That's right... There's no way that
Asa could be just an ordinary wife.

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A money-changer's job is
to exchange gold and silver.

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We also lend money
to the feudal lords.

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Kano-ya has loaned money
to the Choshu clan,

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Satsuma clan and over a
hundred different clans

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that would amount to
about one million ryo.

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One million ryo?

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Is it okay to loan that
much money?

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That's why we have to only
loan money to people we trust.

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Money-changers exchange
money for trust.

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So trust is important?

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One million ryo is...

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You know how to
use the abacus?

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What an admirable
young mistress.

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Her eyes are sparkling a
lot more now than

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when she's wearing make-up.

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Young Mistress...

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A messenger from your
mother left this gift for you...

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From my mother?

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It's the "ayu" (sweetfish)
confection that I like.

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"With the changing wind,
your father is riding a new wind."

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This is...

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There will be big changes
coming to the world.

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Don't tell me...?

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Are you going
out again?

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I need to talk to you.

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You do? I'll listen to what
you have to say tomorrow then.

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He's making me angry.

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How could he...!

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Pardon me!