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Our flow of funds has slowed down, hasn't it?

I think it's the end of the war economy.

Banks are sensitive to changes in the economy.

I see...

Right now, we need to put money into our coal mines,

so we need to rely on the bank to run Kano-ya.

We can't have things like this happening.

Gansuke...

I'm angry at the way you left without saying a

word the day the bank was opened.

You really took care of me since I was little...

Me, too.

I was at the coal mine, so I didn't get a chance to

say goodbye to you either.

Lying here like this, it seems like he's still alive.

He's alive.

I'm sorry.

Look at his face...

It looks as if he'll just sit up, and say "What do you think you're doing?"

Kisuke! A man mustn't cry.

Both of you... Calm down.

Seeing Gansuke's face, you both returned to being children again.

Get up.

Gansuke!

Asa ga Kita

Week 23 "The Palm of the Chief Clerk's Hand" Episode 134

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

Kisuke: Hiroki MIYAKE

Gansuke: Takaya YAMAUCHI

Ume: TOMOCHIKA

Eizaburo Shirooka: Akito KIRIYAMA

Heijuro Yamazaki: Shigeo TSUJIMOTO

Yono Shirooka: Jun FUBUKI

Our match factory was built based on Father's reputation alone.

Is that right?

How much is the debt you're carrying?

GANSUKE'S DAUGHTER TSUGE AND HUSBAND TAKEO

2000 yen.

2000 yen would be about eight million yen today.

As soon as Father collapsed, we couldn't get funding

so if we let it go, it could soon go up to 4 or 5000 yen.

That much?

We can't go on.

Dear... Stop complaining, and go to the factory.

You're right.

I'm sorry. I'd better go.

The people who are asking them to repay the money

must think that the factory can't go on since Gansuke collapsed, don't they?

It seems that way.

Ume...

I hate to ask, but will you stay back here?

Me?

We have to go back, and we need to discuss what

we just heard with Asa and Hei-san.

But...

It would be a great help to me if you'll stay here.

I'll get you a room nearby, so if something should

happen to Gansuke, send us a telegram right away.

Please stay, Ume.

All right.

I see... He still hasn't regained consciousness?

He's like a rock... He's as still as a stone Buddha.

I can't imagine that strong, sturdy Gansuke like that...

But that 4 or 5000 yen isn't an amount that you can

just lend to someone.

I know that! But I can't just ignore it, can I?

Gansuke... is family...

Eizaburo...

I'm sorry.

Of all things, why Gansuke...?

To think that a single accident like this

could cause everything to fall apart like this.

Eizaburo...

Asa... Are you still working?

Yes... I want to go to see Gansuke, too, so

I'm trying to get whatever work I can out of the way.

You do?

I remembered when I collapsed, too.

I remembered something, too.

When Dad collapsed during the Restoration.

I was still little back then.

I thought that Kano-ya would go under...

But... Thanks to Gansuke and you, we managed to make it through.

The reason I could do that was because Father was here.

It's really important for anyone running a

company to continue working in good health.

I'd better be going.

I made a shameless request, didn't I?

Asking the family he used to work for to lend us money.

Everyone must have been appalled.

That's not true...

If he could hear what I said, I think he'd be really angry.

Scolding me for causing Kano-ya any trouble.

Even when we were in Osaka, he only treasured his work

and just ignored my daughter and me.

Is that right?

This is terrible. He looks like he's angry.

Does he? I don't think so.

I can see him wrinkling his forehead...

That's not true.

If he could hear, I'm sure he'd be worried about

his family and his business, and would try to get up.

That's what he looks like.

I don't see it.

There wasn't a single thing that was adorable about him.

Even when he came home, all he talked about was work.

And if I even mentioned that our daughter had heat rash,

he looked bored, and tell me it was my fault for being so lazy.

And I should just put powder on it.

Is that right? I guess looking from the outside there are

things you can't see, aren't there?

Talk to Hei-san about the loan to Mr. Yamada.

Also...

Before I go to the coal mine, I'm going to Kobe...

I'm so sorry to leave him in your care while we're gone.

Not at all. It's no trouble at all, so please don't worry.

I don't know too much about your business, but

I hope things work out well.

Thank you.

We'd better go.

This is from the grand mistress.

I'm sorry we were talking until so late last night.

But I never expected to meet your wife and

your daughter like this.

I guess if you live long, interesting things can happen, can't they?

But I never imagined someone like you would get hit on the

head by something falling from above.

Come to think of it, lately, I'm getting more careless.

The other day when I tried to get something down

from up above, I fell off the chair...

I wonder why...

I thought it wouldn't matter if I never saw you again...

But when something like this happens, I feel sad.

Please... Please open your eyes once more, and let

me hear your voice.

Ume!

Oasa... What about your work?

I arranged it so I could fit an a visit when I go

around the Kobe area...

I went to see the mayor and the principal at the teaching school here first.

How's Gansuke?

There's no change. He's been like this all the time.

I see...

Is it okay if I hold his hand for a little bit?

He really has thick hands, doesn't he?

What are you doing?

Stop that.

Don't mind me, and talk to him about something that's nostalgic...

Talk to him...? Stop that.

What if someone should come in, what will they think?

I'm sorry I don't have any delicacy, but

I went to ask the doctor where I was hospitalized

why I was able to come back to life.

He said my husband would talk to me all the time

while I was unconscious...

And Chiyo often rubbed my hands and legs...

I'm not sure if it's true or not, but all those

things might Have had something to do with it.

So...

I see...

You take his other hand.

If you say so.

It really is thick, isn't it?

Isn't it? These are the hands of a hard worker.

But why...?

What is Ume thinking?