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This story is that of a family reconstructed from the household account books, letters, and the diary left by Inoyama Naoyuki who was employed in Kaga Han as an accountant

Meiji 10th year

Meiji 10th year Navy Bureau Accounting Office Tokyo

Shoulder... arms! Meiji 10th year Navy Bureau Accounting Of lice Tokyo

The Tokugawa Era, which continued for nearly 260 years ended

and the Meiji Era began

Kaga Han where my father and I worked is no more...

The world of the samurai has ended

Enter

I will enter

Is this strange?

Ah... it is not strange

As Chief Navy Accountant, I myself use the soroban

it's my duty

Yes, duty

There are corrections in three places

We are pressed by the arrangements for the battleship;

I understand

there possibly may be snow even in Kyushu

If the battle's prolonged, there won't be enough combat boots

“The new world's changing dizzingly"

“In the eyes of an old man like me”

“there are only surprises..."

"Now, the last month's account of the Inoyama our household in Kanazawa... ”

“is according to the enclosed paper"

“I would like you to go over... ”

There is no need for this

In an account ledger my father kept, there'll be no expectation of mistakes

My father, Inoyama Naoyuki, is the top accountant in Kaga

No, as far as I'm concerned

he's the top soroban-samurai in Japan

Father-in-law... Mother-in-law...

I've finished the preparations for supper

Dear

Um

Bushi no Kakeibo A Samurai's Household Account Book

Tenpo Era Kanazawa

Kanazawa Castle Accounting Of lice

Good morning

Good morning

'morning

Good morning

Good morning

The accountants

who run the Kaga Han financial accounting are government officials with sorobans

In the workplace called the “San-Yo-Jo"

Day after day they struggled with the account books

With one million koku

usually as many as 150 accountants were employed, but

many were Han-salaried, low-ranked samurai

The Inoyama family was employed as accountants in Kaga Han for generations

My grandfather Nobuyuki was the 7th generation

On the occasion of an Edo appointment

he was promoted as an accountant to take an unprecedented 70 koku

Bamboo shoots - the first of the season

Umm

They were delivered from Takenaka's village

O-Haru is already Takenaka's bride

Speaking of bamboo shoots

isn't it the Edo princesses' favorite

on the occasion of their marriage

To do the reception

construction of a gate has been scheduled...

It's kind of early - the wedding's next month...

I hope the weather's clear

At any rate, the Edo Mansion's funding is short of money

The gate is supposed to be painted red, but

there's not the money to paint all of it

So then I thought up a bit of wisdom

The bamboo shoots are piled up

There are 13 pieces In the lowest level, 12 pieces in the second

and gradually decreasing so there's one piece in the highest

In all how many pieces?

It's cedar-bale counting - It's extremely simple

it's cedar-bale counting - It's extremely simple

If! 91

A great calculation

The princess's wedding procession

The princess's wedding procession

will pass straight through the gate

It's a bad omen to look back on the bride's chamber

So then it was decided

to paint only the front of the gate red

Kaga Han Lord's Edo mansion main gate,

also called the “Red Gate”, was built through my grandfather's efforts

Be off and have a good day

An apprentice accountant Is employed unsalaried for three years

eventually to become employed

From the time of his apprenticeship, my father Naoyuki

displayed work to a degree that everyone around was amazed

The nickname “soroban-bake" stuck

Goda-sama

Oh... what?

This is finished, but

there are mistakes... here and here

like this...

Is that so... good work...

Well indeed...

That is to say this mistake

Isn't It necessary to confirm the ledger of the annual taxes

Understood

Left's do it after lunch...

Like a soroban-baka beyond anything I heard

Well, it's amusing

He doesn't take after me or my wife

How can that be... it's getting late...

I have received my salary, please make the payments

Good work

Well, Naoyuki is thoroughly a full-fledged accountant

Since the Inoyama family has two income earners

we have security...

Huh?

Well, I'll be going back and forth between Edo and Kanazawa

Due to this promotion, one way or another there will be expenses

Don't worry, strive diligently

Yes... I'll follow your example

Moderation is good, you know

Well then, good night

ls that 0-Baba-sama's blood?

It is not your lineage

I don't think you're inheritor of the Inoyama line

Would you rather

let him handle the Inoyama family account ledger?

If you do that, the current...

Well, I won't

Imagine him using the soroban just like that

I'll choke

If so...

Shall we settle down?

Shall I show it to 0-Baba-sama also?

Ah... I remember

There's a marriage proposal from Aoyama-dono again

For whom this time?

It's the Nishinaga family

You know him... a martinet... Yosanpachi

A martinet?

It's his daughter 0-Koma? She's rumored to be beautiful

If I'm right, Nishinaga-sama's wife...

passed away several years ago

Originally she was the daughter of a Yuzen-dyeing merchant

Yosanpachi-dono fell in love with her at first sight, and made her his wife

A town magistrate and her mother from a merchant family...

Well, maybe we better decline...

Nishinaga-sama

is assistant instructor at the Mabuchi Dojo

Does Naoyuki still go there?

Despite the fact that he's utterly hopeless at swordsmanship, he doesn't seem to dislike it

At both the soroban and swordsmanship, he works his fingers to the bone

Well at this point he better not take a chance

0-Koma!

0-Koma!

Y-e-s

it's Aoyama-dono

Aoyama-sama...

It's a marriage proposal

Ah... again is it?

I thought I should refuse, but it may be interesting

Is this person good at swordsmanship?

No... that guy...

His swordsmanship is utterly hopeless...

This utterly hopeless one's for me?

He's an accountant

An accountant utterly hopeless at swordsmanship

it's the Inoyama family

They're accountants for generations

Well... a family of solely soroban lineage

Inoyama-sama...

Inoyama Naoyuki

Seems to be a soroban-baka

Inoyama Naoyuki...

He's a soroban-baka?

How's that?

You may say “How's that?"...

Huh?

Since the Tenpo Era, famine extended throughout all of Japan

In Kaga Han also, terrible spectacles were presented again and again

After father became accounting official for the rice storehouse

He became drawn into an unexpected uproar

No rice... no rice is in here

Peculiar isn't it

Smart ass... Don't say groundless things!

It's the lord's... the lord's mercy

I say what the trickery's been done!

This is to stop... stop it!

Yoshichi

This is to stop

Stop

Headsman

We're grateful for reserved rice

Again and again we've pleaded, and

we've finely had it released from the castle

I hear we were given 200 bales

But... this... look at this

I checked it

I checked it... look at this!

I checked it

Where and how much has been distributed?...

How much has been distributed?

But hey,

I say how does it look

Not even 150 bales have been distributed

You bastard... what are you saying

This isn't over

What is this!

Stop this! Stop it...

Please stop it, Yoshichi

What is this

Inoyama-sama, it isn't anything

200 bales have been given out from the rice warehouse

Inoyama-dono, here it's for us...

Someone's removed it along the way

This...

You bastard

Stop!

Would you like some?

No... I'm fine

It's barley tea

I'm grateful

I'll switch with you

O-Koma-sama, do you know that fellow?

No

If I'm right, he's Inoyama-sama, the accountant

Eh!

Ah...

This is 9-se 12-pu

9-se 12-pu

For the reserved rice

I'm sure so much was given

During the time going around to village after village

nearly 30% disappeared

Umm... that's alright

It matches this balance sheet

The middle section doesn't match

For an account book

the final balance sheet should match

The duty of an accountant is to make them match

The numbers that disappeared along the way

It's my duty to make them match on the account book?

That's right

You too sooner or later will understand

Well... but...

The superiors approve of your skill with the soroban

Prying Into extraneous matters you'll put yourself in danger

I too want to be employed safely

My wife's laid up with illness

it's embarrassing to say, but

Our household's loans are piling up

Ah",

Well. leave this to me... I won't do anything wrong

Did my father also do it this way?

Well... I don't know about Inoyama-dono

I hear there's a dispute... about the reserved rice

Huh?

It's a difficult situation

Doing too much to clean it up is grating

It is, but

Umm?

That the figures don't agree is intolerable

Ah... at some risk...

Father...

Is alright if only the final balance sheet matches... 7

What do you mean?

No... I believe you

What is it?

I'll try to make an effort my own way

Be careful

If you make a mistake using the soroban, you can't go back

If it's a soroban, I won't make a mistake...

The soroban and the brush for certain

are our Inoyama-family's specialty

I do agree

I want to see that also

Please get the magistrate's permission

I'm entrusted with this

This part

Isn't recorded in the account book

Ah... already by the disposition settlement...

The portion sold to the rice wholesaler in that storehouse...

No... because... Inoyama-dono...

This is the way it is

The rice sitting In the storehouse has started coming out

That's right

I heard there was one upraising

An underling in the accounting office found out

An underling... this kind of business?

Well... in what way?

This person's superior shelved it, and it seems to be laid to rest again

Tanuki rice

Before long it will change to koban

On the account book in the first place

it was the portion recorded as reserved rice, so

the bribe, the profit margin, and black-market

have been overlooked, but

With this matter, the tanuki's tall can't be grabbed?

If we arrange a duplicate account book,

it will be like arrows and hurled stones

I wonder if this is the end of that underling

He may be transferred to the Noto area...

For Inoyama, tomorrow is a celebratory day

Tomorrow?

It's the wedding ceremony

Oh

That is a happy event...

Well then

Speaking about this case...

Well, everyone please eat

The fish, you know...

Because this is fish caught in the nearby ocean

Please eat up

Well... well, well, well... please

On a beautiful spring day

my father and mother became husband and wife

Later my mother told me

after the encounter at the Asano River, a marriage interview was held

the two met again

My father was nervous, and kept looking down... He couldn't look at my mother's face

My mother thought such a person as my father was charming

On this occasion

Grant us many years of happiness

Come now, Aoyama-dono

Oh... are there bamboo shoots?

Speaking about bamboo shoots...

it was Princess Yo's favorite also

You know about it... the story about the gate

For the festival of the bridal procession

it was decided to construct a gate, but

there were no funds in the Edo mansion

Well... it was decided to paint the gate red...

Well... then I...

I've heard this

Sorry

Huh?

I want to take care of the wedding expenses today

A little...

Um?

I am surprised

But it's alright

I'm a soroban-samurai

Probably completely different... since Nishinaga's a martial arts family

But I prefer this sound

It's the life of the Inoyama family

it's a very beautiful sound

You mean this?

I want ask you

Yes?

This is my only useful skill... besides this...

I am not shrewd enough to have a chance of promotion

Even so, is it alright?

If I say I hate it

What would you do?

I'll be upset

In your skills to live, please include me

Umm, the two of us...

Well, 0-Koma-sama, good morning

0-Kiku-san, 'morning

Good morning

I'll do this...

Let's do it together

No... such a...

You always do it alone?

Yes

About the time the miso soup is made, the lady...

Ah... is that so...

Tamekichi-san?

Yes

'morning

To... fu

To... fu

Abura-age Ganmodoki

0-Tofu-ya-san

To... -fu

One order of tofu please

Yes

I am always thankful

Good morning

Good morning

One order of tofu

Yes

Thank you

Umm

Good morning mother-in-law

Good morning

Well, well, dear!

It's fine weather today

Since you're a newlywed, take it easy...

Did you do this at the Nishinaga household

My father said it isn't shameful for a daughter-in-law

to work diligently

You mustn't

Over here, it's your way that's shameful...

0-Kiku!

O-Koma-sama!

0-Koma-dono

Yes

A marriage...

for me It was different because my husband was taken into my family, but

I told 0-Haru, when I let her marry that

the beginning is important

Yes

To be liked by a father-in-law and a mother-in-law

she can't help doing things like working with devotion

If she does

this becomes completely expected

Expected

That's right

The Inoyama family is a genuine Chigyotori

As an Inoyama wife you mustn't be taken lightly

If you take one step too far

Know that your status will drop one step

Y-yes

In the beginning

it is expected you will practice moderation

Is that the way it is?

That is the way it is

Oh... one divided by one

Reduce to one, times one

1-shaku, 1-sun, 6-bu

“Jinkoki-Ge"

0-Koma-dono

Have you heard from your father?

About what might it be?

The Inoyama family have been accountants for generations, but in the seventh generation we've become Chigyotori

Seventh generation

I'm the seventh generation

Ah... yes

On the occasion of my Edo service

It was decided to construct a gate, but

in any case, there were no funds in the Edo mansion

So then I thought up a bit of wisdom

It was decided to paint the gate red, but...

In the center of a circle there's a perfect square

Is it the law of circumference...

If they paint it red...

It's a difficult problem...

Well then I said...

Go and have a good day

Go and have a good day

Good morning

Good morning

Good morning

Good morning

Good morning Good morning

0-Bugyo

Who do you think

appointed you as the rice storehouse official?

The matter of the rice storehouse the other day has been settled here

Inoyama, say something

Thank you for your consideration

Inoyama...

Obsessively

digging up the old account books

Is it true?

Again?

What did you find?

An Investigation may be lodged. we cannot cover you up again and again

I am extremely sorry

You should have Inoyama go out for training

Ah... Shenanigan-sama

Shenanigan-same...

Inoyama... Inoyama!

A samurai family's wife's duly certainly is to underpin the family

If she's excessively meticulous, she will lose her husband's love...

Well, ls this to suit Naoyuki because he's meticulous?

No, no

it's only about the soroban that Naoyuki's meticulous

Recently... he seems to have anxiety about his duties

Don't worry

The Inoyama family doesn't take bribes

Being only straight is our forte

Rather than that, I wanted to show you something

Your mother was the daughter of a dyer?

Yes

How's this

This has gold thread woven in

Magnificent

Your dark wedding kimono...

This loses to that

This is beautiful

As I thought, you have a good eye

This one

I regard as my most important kimono

On the occasion of Naoyuki's coming of age ceremony, I took the plunge

I wore it only on that occasion

A Kimono is a woman's life...

0-Koma-dono... 7

Ah!

Soon, my mother's pregnancy was known

I was the one born

When a child is born

Gifts from relatives and in-laws

are exchanged

At times like this, a banquet is held modestly? but

because of that, there are expenses

You cannot fail to socialize with the relatives

it's because ultimately what a household comes to rely on are the relatives

Mother-in-law, would you please

Ah... alright, alright

Oh... cute

You can't

Dear?

At such a time, what...

I've been appointed to work at Wajima in Noto

Hey!

It's here

Over here, over here

Glad you came

Hey... over here

Over here, over here

Glad you all came

Yeah!

We'll go!

Yeah!

We're hungry, yeah!

We're hungry, yeah!

Give us rice, yeah!

Give us rice, yeah!

We're hungry, yeah!

We're hungry, yeah!

Give us rice, yeah!

Give us rice, yeah!

We're hungry, yeah!

At the riots that occurred within the domain

the lord Nariyasu-sama was extremely upset

So the day after the riot, 500 bales from Han's rice storehouse

were provided to the people as reserved rice

However

The ringleaders of the riots were executed

The account books - is this all?

Yes

If you're not telling the truth you'll be in trouble

Alright

Yes

In the Accounting Office

There are those who willfully diverted Han's reserved rice

to ill their purses

In addition to the persons listed on the right

all persons connected with the incident of the reserved rice

Everyone must be severely punished

In the name of Kaga Hakke Okumura Tango no Kami Teruzane-sama

personnel were purged

Diversion of rice and dishonest accounting were confirmed

Many of the involved retainers were punished

The group involved in the diversion of reserved rice

were discharged without leniency

My fathers superior Goda-sama and his whole family

were sent to a row house called a simple residence

Then father was summoned

You are Inoyama?

Yes

Under the accounting magistrate Shenanigan

you were exposing the matter of the storehouse rice

Yes

This is the account book that you recorded

With the current riot

the auditor's Investigation of the accountants was made

The dishonesty we exposed here

Is the same as the contents written down in an account book that emerged

This is it

You

despite investigating everything here, couldn't do anything?

Indeed, it was impossible hr an underling

Your transfer to Noto has been canceled

I will give the following order later

There! There!

There, there! There! There!

I'll scatter the rice cakes!

I like this town

I do too

Kanazawa's beautiful

Thank you very much

Let's buy something for you

For me?

I'm happy

Which one's good?

Like this

How about this?

It's this one? You have an expert eye

This one is made by Gyokusui

Beautiful...

But it's too expensive

No...

It suits you well

I am very happy

2-bu please

Hey - wait, wait...

there! there!

Ah... there! Ah... there! There!

A little later

A little later Kaga Han 13th Lord Maeda Nariyasu

Father was ordered to be Lord Nariyasu's vice-recording secretary Kaga Han 13th Lord Maeda Nariyasu

an unprecedented promotion

Kanazawa Castle Agency Room

Inoyama-dono

That looks delicious

Because it's my wife's homemade

This is...

I'm very sorry

The funds on hand...

In this situation Naokichi's hakama-gi celebration...

Has it gotten this bad

When I was four, my hakama-gi celebration

was going to show Inoyama family's heir as a samurai to relations and others

It was an important announcement

This...

Not enough

Shall I ask my father?

Don't... In that case it'll only match the closing balance

How about balancing the account for the time being...

If you don't want my father's help, with my kimono I could get the funds

Don't do it!

It's our child's formal occasion...

Our duty as parents, the honor of a samurai...

What's important is honor?

Will you stay my wife?

If so, I have a request

Father had unexpected plan

Naokichi

Alright

Well then

Congratulations

Congratulations

What idea is this?

A niramidai?

A great picture

I painted it

Because I'm no good at painting

What do you mean?

0-Koma-dono

Today this is it

Well... anyway... its a banquet

Yes

Shall we eat?

It's a tai... it's a tai... It's a tail

it's a tai

it's a tai, it's a tai!

It's a tai, it's a tai!

It's a tai, it's a tai!

It's a tai, it's a tai!

It's a tai, it's a tai!

It's a tai, it's a tai!

It's a tai, it's a tai!

Let's eat

it's a tai, it's a tai

it's a tai, it's a tai

it's a tai, it's a tai

it's a tai, it's a tai

it's a tai, it's a tai

it's a tai, it's a tai

it's a tai, it's a tai

it's a tai, it's a tai

it's a tai

it's a tai, it's a tai

it's a tai

it's a tai, it's a tai

it's a tai, it's a tai

It's a tai, it's a tai

it's a tai, it's a tai

it's a tai, it's a tai

it's a tai, it's a tai

it's a tai, it's a tai

it's a tai, it's a tai

it's a tai, it's a tai

it's a tai, it's a tai

it's a tai, it's a tai

it's a tai, it's a tai

it's a tai, it's a tai

it's a tai, it's a tai

What is this?

On the announcement of the Inoyama family's heir

A niramidai...

I couldn't ask even if I wanted to

0-Koma-dono, what on earth...

The business today is my idea alone

No way we couldn't buy tai

There is no way

W-what

I tried writing it down

"Our Family Loan Memorandum”

Inoyama family loans "Our Family Loan Memorandum”

"Our Family Loan Memorandum”

From Niiho-ya, 1500 monme; From Sakurai-ya, 500 monme

from the exchange office, 3000 monme

from Takenaka Gondaoyu-dono, 1200 monme; similarly

from relatives, 2000 monme; From the office, 600 monme

from family members, 560 monme; From the village officer, 100 monme

In all, 6260 monme

Our Inoyama family Is a lamp in the blowing wind

Our debt has swollen to twice father's and my stipends together

Furthermore, the yearly Interest is 1-wari 8-bu

As it is now...

What will become of us?

Last year Goda-sama's whole family

were made to move into a simple residence

A simple residence...

Such an embarrassment

is hard to imagine to befall the Inoyama family

We could not pay the bill for the banquet because of Naokichi's sword and hakama

Even at the restaurant, the bills have accumulated

There could any number of measures for it

O-Koma said we should do this

With only the funds I have at hand, we decided to provide the meal

And so you decided on the tai drawing?

And exposed our shame to the relatives?

I thought that glossing over it was a greater shame

What... stupid...

What an excellent calculation

Well, what do we do?

My plan is this

This is?

We, the Inoyama family, will sell everything that can be sold

Everything... even clothes?

Three kimonos per person

We'll keep a few utensils, but except for those...

My Yuzen obi's, short sleeve kimono's and goldwork...

I would like you lo sell them

my curios and objects d'art and 0-Baba-sama's tea ceremony utensils...

I am very sorry but

Your collection of books?

I will sell if

My trousseau too...

I'm sorry but...

Yes

it's not only the relatives

even the neighbors will know

The shame, the shame!

Losing our home, being relieved of our positions, moving to a simple residence is a greater shame

It Is displaying the degree of our determination to relatives and others

If a rumor gets out, we can't walk outside

A rumor about a person lasts 75 days

Temporary shame and poverty

If you think of the founder of the Han Toshie's hardships

Now one more point

There is still something?

From now on for our home

I decided to keep a detailed household account book

'Expense Record”

Thus the Inoyama family long-standing battle began "Expense Record'

Umm

Father!

This is Ikarashi Ichinmon's...

I understand

Mother!

This is a masterpiece by Wakasugi Kama

Are you my child or a demon...

Naoyuki, this may be alright...

this an item from Princess Yo-sama...

Will you give up other things?

Uh

Well then, this too

I hate it! I hate it, I hate it! I won't let this go

Mother

I'd rather die!

For the sake of the Inoyama family

This was for the occasion of your coming-of-age ceremony...

You don't wear it, do you?

Dear, only this one...

Well, but...

Left her cry

If she cries once, she'll give it up in the end

She will?

It's always this way

Mother-in-law

If you sell so many things...

We'll manage somehow

If it comes to it, we'll borrow

What kind of family have I married into...

Aren't you thinking so?

If I say I am thinking that...

what will you do?

Sleep... sleep

Sleep... sleep

Bedtime boy where have you gone

Going over Shimozaka, you've gone to the village

A souvenir of the village...

How are you?

He kicked again

An energetic child

He wants to come out soon

Tomorrow will be trouble, the furniture dealer and the money changer will come

Dear...

This is something I still haven't taken out, but...

There is something?

This...

Ah...

Would you mind if I keep it...

That...

is alright

I'm glad

That's so

Give birth to an excellent child

Well... this

This isn't medicine but...

Sugar!

Because if you lick it, you'll gain strength

Quickly... quickly!

The baby will be born in no time

You're young

For this, how is this amount?

Excuse me

O-Koma-sama, this is refined sugar

Yes... keep going... yes... so, so, so

Yes... keep going... keep going

Ah... so, so... so, so

Oh...

This is an excellent item

it's from the Court for their daughter's wedding

Huh...?

An item I received from the princess herself

As expected

Then...

how's this?

You can still appraise it more! Princess Yo-sama!

Inoyama-sama!

Well how about...

This

Excuse me

Oh...

Oh...

This is in fact by Kaga Kanewaka

Inoyama-sama

Isn't the sword the soul of the samurai

Certainly... however...

our Inoyama family's soul is not the sword

it's this

Then, for this sword...

how is this?

Umm

No, no

No, no

No

That

Hey, we're going

Yeah

At this time, this is the inventory

of Inoyama household belongings sold and the amount of money

Ahh... as expected, an accountant

Rarely is there so faultless an account book

it's our family's art

Then, I and Shinohoya-san

will accept half each...

That is still half the amount of the loan

Accordingly

In exchange for repaying 40% of the principal

I want to have a ten-year Interest free installment on the balance

For that...

We've put out everything already

Even if we stood on our heads nothing will come out

If we leave it as it is this way, you folks...

We've been doing business for a long time, but

there's no one who no one who has done it in a drastic way like this

Discretely from the backdoor

there are some who come for consultation

because a samurai family Is concerned with its reputation

I want to look at he face of my child who will be born honestly as a parent

Go and have a good day

Good morning

Good morning

As ever Inoyama's bento

looks delicious... indeed

because my wife made it

The rumor was true

Well, rather than go to the simple residence

is it that?

This will become a story handed down

Inoyama-dono

there's an extra bento box at home

I'll bring it tomorrow

Don't bother, please

it's your tum

Sorry

This?

Well then, that

Yes

0-Koma-sama, I'm sorry

0-Kiku-san, take this

Ah... great...

This is what I purchased today

I got an inexpensive codfish

The soft roe in vinegar and soy was delicious

It's good once in a while

I made konbu-jime so you can have some

Codfish konbu-jime?

That's also delicious

You can have three bowls

You seem happy

That is so...

but... it's interesting

Living poor is interesting?

If I think we're poor, I get depressed

If I think we're resourceful...

Ah... please check the figures

Codfish konbu-jime?

I thought so

Nice flavor

Why is the number of dishes on the table fewer?

It's not that there are fewer

Inoyama, I heard there are fewer

The number of dishes is unchanged

What do you mean?

Don't worry, speak

For today's menu

codfish was used for grilling, arani, soft roe with sauce

It also was used as an ingredient for o-suimono

To change the recipe using the same ingredients

we used ingenuity

Simplicity and frugality?

Dinner even for the lord and his daughter

it's delicious...

Codfish is in peak season

Konbu-jime is delicious too

On tomorrow's table

the rest of my favorites, five items

Since things have settled down

isn't about time to start

What?

Wrong, enter eight

Right

Wrong... one more time, enter eight

From this day forth the battle of my father and me began

Hold the brush straight

Let me teach you

“Confucius says...

“Let me teach you what it means to understand”

Soroban and brush...

from the Analects of Confucius to etiquette were beaten into me

Yes

Young master

Yes

Thank you very much

I was ordered to record the Inoyama household

daily meals in the account book

That is 18 mon

Yes... thank you very much

Thank you very much

Yosanpachi

What would be good for me to aim hr?

Huh?

A samurai's duty...

You're dissatisfied with being trained in soroban by your father?

It's not that I hate the soroban...

The heir born into the lord's household

will become the lord

but

that's not so for either my household or the Inoyama household

If you don't acquire the family skills, the house cannot continue

For the Nishinaga family it's the sword, but for the Inoyama family it's the soroban and brush

that's why your father is strict with you.

There's a shortage of 1 monme 800

Naokichi, what would you do?

There Is still the remaining loan in the Inoyama household

Do you understand a loan?

Y-yes... 7

Even if you put a loan away, it won't disappear

if you don't take any measures

I'll get it from somewhere...

That's also one of the methods

I'll go and borrow it!

From whom?

Yosanpachi

You say you'll borrow from your grandfather Nishinaga-sama

But you can't use that way over and over again

Ah... I'll take it from next month's money

But next month there won't be enough

I'll get it from the next month

In other words, that is a loan

The loan rapidly increases

Well, what do you do?

Ru be frugal

Well, that's the situation

What's this?

Three days ago

it seems that 4 four mon disappeared

It's line, I'll do it myself

I'm sorry

Do something by yourself

Naokichi

take this

Oh... there it is

Naokichi

Look at the moon

Tonight it's a full moon

Then...

that moon will wane day by day

Then, the new moon...

Grandfather

Grandfather...

Grandfather...

Grandfather!

Grandfather!

Grandfather!

Grandfather

Grandfather

Naokichi

Are you sad, Yosanpachi?

Naturally

I'm sad

You're sad, I see

What's the matter

What are you doing?

It's the funeral expenses

Does any household do that?

Even when a relative has died...

Depending on the household, it varies

Because you're a soroban-samurai?

That's right

Here

Nao-dono, I'll give you a problem

Yes

Together there are 100 cranes and turtles

In all there are 212 legs

How many cranes and how many turtles are there?

Your father solved it when he was 5 years old

This month seems to be settled

Yes

Did you ind the 4 mon?

Ah... the fact is...

I picked it up by the Saikawa

The money you dropped?

Well, it isn't

The 4 mon you picked, which ones are they?

I already spent it

Then

Left's pretend this is it

Go and return it

Huh?

If Ifs something you picked up at Saikama, go back there and ref tum it

Why is that?

Listen, we receive salary from the lord

We shouldn't waste even 1 mon

To pick up money dropped on a road,

is an act of a beggar

Never loose the honor as a samurai

I don't understand, father...

What is it

Only established rules...

but a compassionate heart...

Go back there and return it!

Naokichi!

Dear!

Don't open you mouth!

Go!

0-Koma!

In the middle of the night like this, by himself...

If he misses his footing and drowns in the river, what will you do!

If that happens, it's his fate

That kind of fate I do not permit!

When there are 50 cranes and 50 turtles...

that's 300, more than 212...

If there are 60 cranes...

0-Baba-sama, O-Baba-sama!

O-Baba-sama

There are 64 cranes and 36 turtles

A great calculation

O-Baba-sama passed away

A little while later...

Mother-in-law

Mother, I am going

D-diligently...

Diligently do your duty reliably

I'm being pressed by preparations for the lord's Noto inspection

Will you go too?

Take care, Edo's far away

Edo?

I'm sorry

Hey, Nakasuke!

Yeah

This way

0-Masa

Where's 0-Koma-dono?

Mother in a time like this

0-Koma!

Mother-in-law...

Mother!

Well, this is the Yuzen

for the occasion of my husband's manhood ceremony...

Mother

This is that Kimono

Well

Please wear it

Mother

There is no loan any more

I was even faster than my father

At age 11, I was serving as apprentice in the Accounting Office

At age 14, I celebrated attaining manhood

And then at the time I was age 19

I took 0-Masa, an aunt's daughter, as my wife

After the arrival of the Black Ships, society too was about to change greatly

Umm... the taste is perfect

You selected a good octopus

From the Bakufu an order for the Choshu Conquest was given

Kaga Han dispatched troops also

Kaga Han dispatched troops also Maeda Family Heir Maeda Yoshiyasu

Maeda Family Heir Maeda Yoshiyasu

Yoshiyasu, who was Inclined to xenophobia Maeda Family Heir Maeda Yoshiyasu

Maeda Family Heir Maeda Yoshiyasu

went against the opinion of his father, Nariyasu Maeda Family Heir Maeda Yoshiyasu

went against the opinion of his father, Nariyasu

avoided the battle with Choshu and withdrew the troops

Yoshiyasu-sama was ordered to house arrest

The Chief Retainer Matsudaira Daisuke slit his stomach

I heard

I'm certain

As the lord's vice-recording secretary, you are waiting on the side

The treatment this time...

It is a bitter, agonizing decision

to show the Bakufu our position

Regarding the situation this time

with the purge of the xenophobic faction

It amounts to a declaration to the country that Kaga Han would that it would side with tho Bakufu

Kaga

will be left behind in the new generation

Is that alright?

Father, you're at the lord's side, aren't you?

Nariyuki

you are an accountant

Indeed...

I am, but now...

What do you want to do?

These are turbulent times!

What one person does or does not is not the point!

They were not turbulent times. but...

I too...

it's not that I have been living for myself alone

Men die and the world moves on in time

Father, are you a soroban baka? I

That way of speaking to your father

I do not permit!

I don't want to be buried in the ground of Kaga with only a soroban!

This time it didn't get broken...

Keio 2nd year, Maeda Nariyasu retired

Yosiyasu-sama became the 14th generation Kaga Han lord

Then In October the next year imperial rule was restored

May the fortunes of war...

I'm going

Mother...

I will come back

Take care

Work diligently...

Yes

With my father and I not understanding each other, I headed to Kyoto

The lord complying with Tokugawa Yoshinobu's request

ordered the dispatch of the entire Kaga Han army

This morning's sweet-shrimp

really has a good flavor

Please

Thank you

Please serve it again tomorrow

You've come again?

Kotaro, I'm your grandfather

He will cry again

Father!

What's the news?

Tokugawa and the Satsuma-Choshu Alliance

have begun a battle at Toba

So then Kaga too

No, Kaga isn't entering the war

What does that mean?

Tokugawa seems to have finally become an enemy of the Court

The Satsuma-Choshu Alliance hoisted the brocade flag

I heard that Satsuma-Choshu Alliance was given authorization for attacking the Bakufu...

Indeed

Nariyuki...

What will Kaga do?

If It supports Tokugawa-same, it'll become an enemy of the Court...

Is Nariyuki an enemy of the Court? I

And so, the young master

no, the lord

ordered the entire army to withdraw

Chased by smoke again

They say Kaga ran away

They're coming back with a battle

Well, yes...

Father, what is it?

Nariyuki seems to have been taken along by someone

Taken along...?

By whom? To where?

That I don't know

Nariyuki

What on earth will happen to him?

Truly a person's fate cannot be predicted

I valued by the head of the new army administration Omura Masujiro

for my skill as an accountant

Even while questioning myself

it was the skill with soroban taught by my father

Omura-sama said...

“If It's a company running around shouldering a rifle or a sword there are any number..."

"But from now on a battle is tactics"

"Logistics determines the battle”

"To deliver to the troops”

"I want a person who can arrange for box lunches and sandals"

"That's you”

"That's you”

"You're the one who can use the soroban reliably”

"Your skill is like a 1000 soldiers”

"No it rivals 10000”

"it's not only a battle”

"In this new era, I need your power”

"to establish the world from now on”

"it's a person like you"

"it's a person like you"

0-Masa-dono

0-Masa-dono...

0-Masa-dono

0-Masa-dono...

0-Masa-dono...

What's wrong?

That person...

Omura Masujiro-sama was killed

If Inoyama Nariyuki of Kaga, who was traveling along, lost his life too

it's written that they think Inoyama Nariyuki-dono...

Whether it's Nariyuki or not, is still...

I knew in time, this kind of...

Be brave!

Mother-in-law?

I will go to Kyoto

Wait!

After they confirmed ifs Nariyuki

No! How can I just wait...

If that's it, then I'll go

I'm always only waiting for you and Nariyuki here...

If that child died...

Not yet...

For 4 mon coin...

The time you made him go and to the Saikawa to throw it away

If Naokichi fell and died drowning, you said it was fate

I'm sorry

That kind of fate...

That time I didn't go out to him

The whole time I...

Forgive me...

Tum... right

Face... forward

The Kaga person who was killed with Omura-sama

was Adachi Konosuke who put me into the new administration

Squad... halt

Using so many lives as a stepping stones

a new era has come

Even to my hometown, which I saw after a long absence, the waves of change had visited

Welcome home

I'm back

Kotaro!

Welcome home

I'm back now

Father?

He's waiting

Kotaro

Father

Mother

Welcome home

I've just come back

Nariyuki

Yes

Outside...

The day the Inoyama household liquidated its belongings...

you were born

That's 0-Kuma

I was 4 years old

Where was the four-mon coin?

Maybe that area

I'm probably heavy...

No...

This is the first time...

Me too...

Hm?

I have no recollection of being carried by you

It's just that you don't remember

Still

Yes...

it's certainly so

that children don't remember...

A pitiable thing

I did...

it's a tai, it's a tai

it's a tai, it's a tai

it's a tai, it's a tai

it's a tai, it's a tai

it's a tai, it's a tai

it's a tai, it's a tai

it's a tai, it's a tai

Nariyuki

Yes

I want to go to the castle

Inoyama Naoyuki died in Meiji 11th year

Does any household do that?

Even when a relative has died...

Because you're a soroban-samurai?

That's right

Later the Inoyama family moved to Tokyo

Inoyama Nariyuki served as Navy Paymaster General and Finance Minister for the Meiji Government

His son Kotaro and his second son Tetsujiro both joined the Navy

0-Koma died in Meiji 30th year

Nariyuki died in Taisho 9th year

The Inoyama family account books were kept to the last and remain now.

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