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Mom...

You're up really early. How unusual.

I'm going to Tokyo from now.

Don't be ridiculous!

Not with your bad leg...

I refuse to give up.

Thank you, Mom.

But...

Asa ga Kita

Week 24 "Grandma's Great Task" Episode 142

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

Kisuke: Hiroki MIYAKE

Eizaburo Shirooka: Akito KIRIYAMA

Chiyo Shirooka: Fuuka KOSHIBA

Miwa: Sumika NONO

Izumi Narusawa: Koji SETO

Heijuro Yamazaki: Shigeo TSUJIMOTO

Kazu: Yasuko TOMITA

Jirosaku; Ginnojo YAMAZAKI

Yono Shirooka: Jun FUBUKI

Hatsu Mayuyama: Aoi MIYAZAKI

What is this?

These are pictures of prospects for your marriage meeting?

These are the ones my family know.

And these are from my husband's insurance clients...

They're all second or third sons and are

willing to be adoptive husbands, so you

needn't worry. Just choose one.

Thank you, Uncle Eizaburo. You, too, Sachi.

Shall we go?

I'll be back later,

I'll leave this to you, Sachi.

Take my time and look them over...?

What did you want to talk to me about?

I'm thinking of selling the coal mines.

What did you say?

At this rate, the poor economy is going to get even worse.

This might be the biggest wave to come since the

Restoration, so before that happens, let's start to

build up our funds.

Wait a minute!

But the mining output is soaring right now.

After all the hardships, it's finally become a

superior enterprise.

All the more reason to...

Right now, the government ironworks is desperate to

get more coal in order to ensure their supply.

If we do it now, we can sell it for a high price.

It makes me sad, too...

We've nurtured them this far, so I'm sure

they'll all be okay.

Hei-san... This is no\ time to be eating lunch.

at Miwa's place... Asa was just...

You're right... I couldn't eat in that atmosphere.

Thank you for your letter.

I should thank you I was planning on going

to Tokyo to see you. I didn't expect you to come

all the way to Osaka.

I wanted to come and apologize.

But...

No... We just went ahead, and asked Mrs. Okuma to arrange it.

No... I came here prepared for you to hit me.

Hit you?

Yes. You must think I'm really awful.

I agreed to it once, so this is extremely rude.

It's only natural for a man to want to hit me.

No... I'm not that much of a man.

It's just that I wanted to talk to you directly

until I'm satisfied.

By any chance, are you thinking that my wife,

Asa, is a terrible woman?

For a man with a samurai background, it must

have really surprised you.

For a woman to throw her weight around and

argue with a man...

But that's...

That's right. Chiyo isn't at all like Asa.

She's meek and reserved, and very ladylike.

That's right, she is.

Mom! I said it's okay for you to come with me,

but you promised to just be quiet and listen, didn't you?

No... I don't adhere to the old adage that says that

men and women should not share the same position.

Even Napoleon said that in order to improve the

country, we need good mothers.

I'll admit that I was surprised, but...

I don't think it's a bad thing for a woman to have her

own way of thinking.

It was my father who answered Mrs. Okuma.

My father thought it was a really good match,

and was happy about it.

To be honest, even I...

It's not that I don't like Chiyo.

However, I can't imagine myself working for a

commercial company or a bank...

I've always planned to work in the government after

I graduated, and I can't give up my dream to

work as an administrator and help Japan move forward.

I'm really sorry.

I see... After hearing that I'm sure that it will help

to ease the pain in Chiyo's heart.

Then is it okay if we let her marry into your family?

Is it okay if she marries into your family instead of

having you be adopted into our family?

What are you saying, Mom?

Wasn't it you who kept saying that she was

the heiress to our family?

I did, but when I think about how Chiyo feels.

If Eizaburo hears about this, it'll be terrible.

Please! Will you just think about it once more?

But I...

Mom...

Please! Please!

Please stop this, Mom.

Please.

I'm sorry about that.

I don't know what to say...

Thank you for taking the time to come here.

My husband...

This is my wife, Asa.

This is Keisuke Higashiyanagi.

I'm pleased to meet you. I'm Chiyo's mother.

I'm Higashiyanagi... I'm sorry about...

That's right... In the past, we had a

friend called Tomo-chan.

Tomo-chan worked for the new government,

but he said being in the center of it all, there were too many

hindrances to get anything done, so he quit his post...

And he started doing business in Osaka.

He said he would change Japan using the power of business...

He got into mining, the spinning industry, trading vessels...

And he really changed Osaka and Japan by getting into all

kinds of businesses.

That's right, he did. He established the stock

market and the Chamber of Commerce, too.

By any chance is that Tomo-chan...?

Keisuke... We have a reputation that is

older than the present government.

Reputation?

During the Edo period, the Restoration, the Meiji era...

No matter how the world changes, Kano-ya

has been in the background supporting

our country for 270 years.

But then, I don't really like doing business, so

I haven't done anything at all.

But thinking about it now, I think...

That having Asa and the whole family preserve

our reputation, while difficult, makes me happy

we've done it.

Keisuke...

I'm terribly sorry about what we did...

Because we asked someone with as much power as

the Okumas for help, it must have been difficult for you

to turn it down.

I was engaged to my husband since I was

a little girl, so when I heard that there was a man

my daughter cared about, it made me so happy.

I wanted to do something about it so badly...

So I just rushed into it at full speed...

I'm sorry for being such a doting parent.

Not at all. I'm sorry.

I'm glad I met you.

Please become a good government official.

I was going to say something nasty,

but I couldn't...

That's right... You tiled to put on airs, and only

said good things.

What about you?

But he seems like such a serious-minded person.

Doesn't he? What a shame.

It really is.

SIX MONTHS LATER...

After some time passed...

You have to quit the bank?

Yes...

I have a marriage proposal.

I said I wanted to work even after I got married, but

they said it's bad for appearances...

Is that right? I guess it can't be helped.

Actually, my father told me that I have to marry a

man from Kobe within the year.

You, too, Sakae?

I've turned it down a number of times, but

my father's getting old, so I can't be selfish.

That's true... Mr. Kudos been worried about you

getting married for a long time now, hasn't he?

My parents told me to quit the bank already.

After the mistress took all that time and trouble

to train all of you... Women can't work for very long.

What a waste.

But if the women's university is established, we all think

that maybe the way women work in the future could

change even more.

That's right. So please do your best, Mistress.

Thank you.

You're right. I'm sure it'll change, so let's

all continue to do our best.

We will.

Also...

So there's no objection to Izumi Narusawa being the

first principal of the university?

Thank you.

The women's university was moving forward.

WAKAYAMA

It was summer, and in Wakayama, it's going

to be a month since Eitatsu passed away.

I'm home.

Ainosuke... Dad wants to talk to you.

Actually, I do, too.

What does Ainosuke have to tell them?