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Mr. Godai's going to Tokyo tomorrow.

It's possible that he may never be able to come

back to Osaka again.

What do you mean...?

What's going on?

Why?

Why won't he be coming back?

It can't be! I didn't think he would get worse so suddenly.

That's why I kept telling him to stop drinking.

Miwa! Tell me...

What's happening to Mr. Godai?

Godai will be going to Tokyo to convalesce.

The doctor in Tokyo has been recommending

that he do that from six months ago.

But he said he still had a lot of work to do, and

pushed himself and just kept working.

But finally...

On top of that, he told me...

If... he should die...

He said I should give this to Asa Shirooka...

This is...

Asa!

My husband...

Let's go.

He's trying to make himself looks too good.

You can't let him go like this.

Asa ga Kita

Week 16 "Someone to Show You the Way" Episode 95

Original Story: Chieko FURUKAWA

Screenwriter: Mika OMORI

Music by: Yuuki HAYASHI

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

Narrator: Keiko SUGIURA

Asa Shirooka: HARU

Shinjiro Shirooka: Hiroshi TAMAKI

Sobei Mayuyama: Tasuku EMOTO

Tomoatsu Godai: Dean FUJIOKA

Kisuke: Hiroki MIYAKE

Ume: TOMOCHIKA

Miwa: Sumika NONO

OSAKA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

SHIPPING RELATED

KOSEIKAN RELATED

RAILWAY RELATED

WHARF RELATED

Go on in...

I don't have to see him.

I've already talked to him.

And accepted his feelings.

I'll wait for you here. Go in by yourself.

Excuse me...

Mr. Godai?

DOCTOR'S PRESCRIPTION FOR TOMOATSU GODAI

Asa...

Am I dreaming?

Yes... You can think of this as a dream.

You weren't planning on ever seeing me again, were you?

Yes...

But I'm glad.

I didn't want to see you, but...

Everytime I remembered, I thought that...

I should have heard the unimportant thing

you had to say, after all.

This is no time to be talking about unimportant things.

Because you lit the way for me,

I was able to make it this far.

Yet I haven't returned any of my obligations to you at all.

You're the one who lit the way for me.

Do you remembers how we first met?

You scolded me right from the start.

You naive little girl.

I may not know much about the way of the world, but

you're the one who ran into me, chased

after me, touched me all over, and just ran off.

Is that any way for a Japanese man to act?

You're absolutely right.

I'm so embarrassed...

I really was naive, wasn't I?

I couldn't forget my first time in Osaka and being

scolded by such a little girl.

Even after I went to England, that made me realized even

more that I was a Japanese man.

That's why I wrote that letter to you.

I really was surprised when I got that.

I wondered what kind of town Osaka was to

have such an interesting person like you.

And in the new government, I was appointed as the Magistrate of Osaka.

Listen to me carefully...

The reason we're suffering and Sanouji-ya collapsed is because

of the feudal lords who won't repay us and because of

your new government.

Someone! Help me!

Take Asa away.

Who was it that made this Meiji society?

To hell with you!

We have nothing but strange memories, don't we?

But speaking of that, Osaka has changed, hasn't it?

Even at the Chamber of Commerce, I often hear

about Osaka regaining its old momentum

when it was called the "kitchen of the land."

There's still a long way to go.

In many ways, Osaka will become the center of this country.

At first, I didn't really like this town...

When I was at the shipping magistrate, I was treated

terribly by Osaka merchants who looked down on the samurai...

You're from Satsuma...?

We're always indebted to you.

But right now, we just lent some money to

the government, so we have no money in our storehouse.

Of all the...

Why do I have to be subjected to this?

But once I started working with them,

there's no one I could trust more than the Osaka merchants.

I'll admit that it might have been the samurai who

changed history, but no matter what era it may be, it was

always the merchants who supported land gave vitality to the country.

So that made me reconsider.

And I met you, too.

Don't worry... I won't die yet.

I still have a lot of things I have yet to do.

That's right. That's the Godai I know.

I really still have a long way to go.

Trade, finance, the spinning industry,

the railway, trading vessels... Like Okubo, I haven't left

anything behind for Japan.

I really am just getting started.

I want to stake my life for the sake of this country's

future until the very end.

You're looking toward the future after all, aren't you?

You're the penguin.

You still have this...

Actually, I have something surprising to tell you.

There was a penguin in a children's textbook.

PENJUN

Really?

It said "penjun," but...

I'm sure it was a penguin.

After this, Godai moved to Tokyo, and started his convalescence.

A month later...

Godai passed away in Tokyo.

Asa...

I really...

...can't ever catch up to him now.

It was September of 1885.