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Tetsuzo

Hello. Changed your professional name?

Ikku Juppensha

I've written a death poem

Already? What poem?

Now it is time...

To bid farewell... To this world...

What's next?

I'll be happy to become ashes

Ashes?

You'll be glad to become ashes? When?

I won't die

I just want to get rid of my past

Ikku

You just scribble for sake

I enjoy writing novels

You go ahead, too

Why not? I'm ready to write a great masterpiece

One much better than your latest

I heard you'd changed your name to Sanba Shikitei

Written a dead poem too?

Life is like a fart

I fade away, nothing left behind

My next work is named

Public Bath

Public bath for women?

I'll write about men too

When naked, there's no difference

between the Shogun and us

That's good

Tetsuzo, what on earth are you doing?

Look at Utamaro

He thinks he's the only woodblock artist now

Have you seen his pictures?

Damn Utamaro

They just look beautiful

They're not alive

Who are you?

Oei, Some food?

That's rude

Are you a samurai's daughter?

Go downstairs

Did you bring me here for that?

What's he doing?

You said you preferred old men right?

What?

Nothing

Who's he? Another of you like?

Utamaro I don't like him

The famous Utamaro?

Shogunate Mirror-Polisher Ise Nakajima

This is where I live

Are you teasing me?

I'm the Shogunate mirror-polisher's son

Then why do you live in that place?

You'll see

Hello Where is my father?

Taking a bath

You're his son?

Why not just go in?

He's disowned me

Wonderful!

Shogunate mirror-polishers are very rich

He has lots of money

What do you do?

I'm a painter

What's funny?

All you do is doodle

When a shower comes

there are some who just wait until it stops

They're cowards

I don't care. I start walking

I start running

Nobody knows where I'm running to

How should they know?

I don't know, myself

All I know is I must start all over forgetting everything

Don't look like that

You mean nothing to me

I'll mean something one of these days

Is Oei really your daughter?

She was born was I was nineteen

Then I divorced my wife because of a shower?

Rain?

Yes. A shower in my mind

How many showers since then?

Such a long time, Father

What brings you?

I'd like some money

Who is she?

I wondered if you'd like her

So I brought her

Slight trouble with your eyes?

About money, this is the last time

Why? I brought her for you...

Think well

You left home to become a painter

I disowned you then

I had no children

I adopted you because...

I wanted you to succeed to me as the Shogunate mirror-publisher

I will. I can study painting while working

Thinking like that, you'll never succeed

I hear you're studying...

Under Yusen Kano the Shogunate painter

You're studying many styles all at once

What's on your mind?

Because sometimes a shower falls...

A shower? What's that?

Hopeless!

He was raised at Honjo the worst place in Edo

His father was a day-laborer

He was poverty itself

Tetsuzo's mother left him

His uncle was a clam vendor and...

He often bought Tetsuzo when he came to sell clams

Unlike now, he looked bright. So I adopted him

Go to Shunsho Katsukawa and study painting under him

That advice and this money-

and that's the last

Pick them up

Do you want me to act like a beggar?

I shouldn't get angry

Thank you very much

About her... do you like her?

She's interesting. I'll leave her here

I don't understand him

He has his nerve

I believe my father will like you

You took me to your house because you were plotting this?

See you again

Again?

I'll come again to get money

What else do you want?

Don't you mind if I leave?

How old are you?

Twenty

You may have me

What did you say?

That you can have me

You mean it?

I always mean what I say?

So soft...

I don't want you to treat me carefully

I'm not a pet

Are you asking for rough treatment?

You've only begun to see what I really am

Here's some money for you old woman

Take it, disown me, go somewhere

Ingrate!

You are here, because I bore you

This is where I work

I don't think you can stand my father's way of life

You plan to save lots of money first

To make your life stable and then write books

That's right. You can't work well if you're poor

May I be honest?

I find your way of thinking boring

I see

You're the son of a samurai aren't you?

Yes. My father worked for one of the Shogun's close retainers

And because you wanted to be an author

You married the daughter of a rich store owner

That's very bad

She's thirteen years older than you at that

You know well

What's bad?

Nothing

Go outside and play. You're in the way

Don't bother about her

You and your father just live on us

The sight of you sickens me

She looks so gentle but she's grumbling all the time

She's just serious

Did you say something?

No, I didn't

Those good-for nothings!

You're good at making clogs

I'm a clog maker now I must do my best

What's funny?

Nothing

My father took to drink because Onao left him

She wasn't much

But her running away hurt him very badly

You'll understand when you grow up

What I grow up?

I'll still be a woman when I've grown up

I won't understand men

That reminds me. You are a woman

What talk! Even I have someone whom I love secretly

Something nice happened last night

Let's drink to it

Something nice?

I'll tell you. Stop working

I visited Master Kano's last night

The master was painting

A picture of a child trying to get some persimmons

The persimmon branch was as high as this

And the end of the pole the child was holding was much higher

Yet he was standing on tiptoes

That's odd. The tree should have been much taller

I told Kano about it Then he became angry

Get out!

He kicked me out

He got upset, because I put him to shame

Wait a minute, Father

He might have been trying to paint an awkward child

Or how innocent children were

There are many ways of painting

If paintings are too logical, they are boring

Right

Your pictures don't sell, because yours are just a collection of

something you stole from the others Yours are too perfect

Yes. That can be true

Thank you. Thank you

Damn it! A shower again!

Go eat something

Seems you don't want me here

Clog man, will you leave us alone?

This is his house

I don't mind

You too, boy

Me too?

Onao's come to see me almost every night

We drink together

I washed her

We almost went to bed together

Excuse me

But just before the critical together

She disappeared

leaving a mysterious smile

Made yourself up to look young?

I miss Onao-so badly

I can't just sit and wait

It's the same with me

I can't forget her beautiful body

I'm painting nothing but pornography...

Where she's being raped

Ironically, some say this pornography is the best of the work I've done

Where did she go?

She left after destroying me

Leave. Stay away from her

or I'll kill you

Leave!

Are you still in there?

I'm coming out

I'll go take the clogs to Tsutaya

I see. Come home early Don't be late for supper

Eating regularly is good for the health

Did you hear us talking?

No

Don't you mind your wife being so nosy?

When I married her, I promised never to write books

I didn't mind her being older

Because I thought, someday I could do what I really wanted to

After she falls asleep, I get up and start writing novels

I know they can't be very good

but I'm still trying

Actually, I'm going to see Tsutaya the publisher...

To show him a novel I've just finished

I wonder who wrote it...

Don't play dumb. You wrote it

Tell Tetsuzo about that clearly Understand?

Some fear to see crabs walking sideways

Like you

A grown-up man, at that

Your wife's a crab which sidles along

I'm afraid I've lost my wits

Crabs crawl sideways

If they walk forward, they're monsters

I'm in a hurry. I'll be brief

Come to Honjo in two hours

To my father's?

What for?

Come to the garden. Promise

What does she think I am?

Stay away from her, or you'll get hurt

I saw Onao...

Shut up!

I wonder why you're so excited

What was Onao to me?

I fear I might do something with her

But I know I shouldn't I have you as my daughter

You get excited easily but you cool down soon, too

I thought you'd soon get tired of her

What trouble!

Tetsuzo, look at yourself

Oei, will you sit up all night and watch over me?

Did you tell them?

Not yet

Then I'll tell them

Get out of here very soon, you two

I'm too busy

What a strange answer!

Understand, Oei?

I wonder

With you here, my husband can't concentrate on his work

Writing novels isn't for normal people

I'm sorry

What a shame!

I'm always doing my best for you

But all you do is write books using names like...

Bakin Takizawa or something

Sashichi!

Oei!

So long!

Onao

You're angering me. Come on out

What brings you here?

To see Onao

That's odd She said to meet her here

Onao. Where are you?

Here

What's happened?

How brutal!

What is?

Gosuke!

The clog-store boy

He works for Sashichi

Forgive me

She deduced me. She forced me to

I'm not to blame

You were just teasing him, right?

Nothing happened with him, right?

Please don't be so hard on this old man. Please!

Why don't you look at me?

I've not hanged myself yet

Not hung yourself?

My parents hanged themselves

They were very close, though

Did you sleep with that boy or not?

I was so bored for the last several days

I'll forget everything

Live with me

I'll give you all I have

I don't care for honor, post or money

Shall I leave Edo?

I'm tired of it

I'll do farming in the country

Stop it! You bitch!

I'm sorry

Onao

Kill me!

She jilted me

She turned me down

She turned me down, the Shogunate mirror-publisher!

Onao isn't here. Where did she go?

She said to come here?

What's wrong with you?

I quit. I stopped painting

You'll be better off as merely Tetsuzo

I'll be a clam vendor I'll sell red pepper too

That's fine

I'll forget everything

Except for one thing:

That's Onao

I think he's been terribly hurt...

He hanged himself!

Tetsuzo, what is this?

Buy my red pepper!

It's flavoured with spices...

Like sesame and poppy seeds. Buy my red pepper!

Buy some!

Buy my red pepper!

It's flavoured with spices...

If it isn't Tetsuzo...

What happened?

I wonder where Father has gone...

It's flavoured with spices...

Tetsuzo, what are you doing?

Are you crazy?

It's me. It's Ikku Juppensha

So you're at a place like this?

I looked for you

You up and left, and never returned

You're selling red pepper, too?

Have one

I bought something. I'm broke

so I sleep outdoors

What did you buy?

At an antique store with all the money I had...

I bought this

It's St Nichiren

It's Onao for me

I think you still miss her

I always need something to depend on

So, you're now able to talk about your own weak points

What's wrong with you?

Selling red pepper. Did you quit painting?

You look nice

Buy my red pepper!

It's flavoured with spices...

Shut up!

Selling red pepper? What a blockhead!

Don't speak ill of him

You can't be a painter Selling red pepper is right for you

Angry? Then paint some good pictures surprise us

Shut up?

Stop it

Selling red pepper is right for me

Sashichi, I implore you...

Praise it

He drew it while selling red pepper

It may not sell...

But if you say it's good That'll encourage Father

Just say it's good Praising doesn't cost money

You and he are friends childhood friends

Wonderful picture, isn't it?

You write books, yet don't understand how people feel?

Tsutaya, I'm not asking you to buy Tetsuzo's picture

I'll pay for you. So publish it

You may laugh this off

But don't tell anybody that I paid for it

Just pretend that you liked it and published it yourself

It's a trick but if he believes his drawings are accepted...

It'll encourage him

I'm a merchant

I'll do almost anything for money

But if I publish poor pictures it'll damage my reputation

Father, wake up Tsutaya, the publisher is here

I'm Tsutaya

What's wrong? Can't you draw?

You've been talking big, haven't you?

I can't, Oei

I can't

Then draw me

When I'm smiling?

When I crying?

Or both?

Or do you want to draw me when I'm naked?

Sit down

Look sideways

The lines...

Poor carving!

Do it yourself!

Are you asleep? What's this colour?

Sashichi...

Shall I massage your feet?

No, thank you

Don't do anything

Tell me anything you want

Eat to get better. I'll cook for you

I'm glad you've endured it all

You'll soon be able to do

what you really want to

What?

I think you'll feel wonderful if I die

Don't talk like that

After I die, sell this house

Close the clog store and concentrate on writing

I married you because...

I wanted you to succeed to the family business

I was wrong

Eventually you failed in it

Now that the business is gone

you must make a good author

Bakin Kyokutei... I think it's a good name for you

It sounds dignified

In Mourning

I'll write!

I'll write!

Now, ladies and gentlemen...

Watch what Hokusai Katsushika is going to draw

Two sparrows on a tiny rice grain!

Absurd! What's he doing?

He surely has changed

He's showing off

Crazy! I can't stand it

Everyone, up on the gate and see!

Who is it?

It's me

Oei?

Were you working, Bakin Kyokutei?

Don't call me Bakin Kyokutei I'm Sashichi

Just call me Sashichi

But I came to borrow money again

Come in

You're working hard, aren't you?

I'm letting out what I've saved in me all at once

You live all alone?

An old woman comes to cook for me

Being alone is nice. I can relax

How is Tetsuzo doing?

He talks as big as usual

But actually he is poor

What about his huge pictures?

Don't they make money?

No. Paper costs too much

He likes to show off

He's unhappy now

He used to be timid

To get some money I draw for children's toys and kites

So does he, using my name

When someone goes up in the world too fast...

He often becomes like that

My pictures of the Sumida River...

They sell well. I'm going to hold a geisha party to drink to them

Thanks, but I'm busy

I'm not inviting you

You just make me nervous

I came to borrow

I must get my clothes out of pawn

I refuse

Lend me something

I'm working now

I see. I've made up my mind too

I'll draw no more illustrations for your novels

They sell because my illustrations are good

I don't think so!

I'll break with you

You've broken with everybody

You have no friends now

Father, he's right

Why are you siding with him?

All you write is didactic novels

They're unrealistic

I hate evil

Look. Public Bath- Sanba Shikitei wrote it

He went to the public baths to write it

To be naked to take a bath

It's a matter of due course

Even Buddha does it

When you fart in the water...

Bubbles rise, hubble-bubble

I read it, too

Just minor realism

Sanba is supposed to be talented

But I don't appreciate him

I see nothing interesting in farting

Even Buddha farts in the bath That's good

I disagree

Lend me some money

No

Then I'll steal it. I know where you're hiding it

No, You mustn't do that, Father

You're like a robber

What a shame!

After tonight's orgy, I'll set out on a trip to Mount Fuji

I'll draw Mt. Fuji

How can I live then, with those debts?

Sashichi will help you

I'll tell him the truth

Stop it

Your pictures were published, because someone paid Tsutaya

What's that? Who on earth paid Tsutaya for me?

Who else?

Onao

Onao?

She sent me some money during her trip

I think she heard you were poor

You're lying!

Where is she now?

Tell me!

Utamaro was arrested. Handcuffed for 50 days

They say he made a fool of the Shogunate

A false charge!

If Utamaro was jailed will Tsutaya be punished too?

How awful! Does the Shogunate want us to stop?

It seems I'm hypocrite

I paid the publisher for Tetsuzo

And I said it was Onao's doing

Just to please myself

I know it's awful

My novels betray it

I must rewrite my novels

I'm sorry. I'll do anything for you

I'll do as you say

It's very nice of you

Excuse me, I'll put down the bedding

I'm used to this

I'm almost 40. I'm mature

I'll lose energy as I get old

I must finish what I want to do

I know how you feel

My late wife told me to do my best

I don't mind, but the world may think differently

I don't think you'll talk about this

Proceed, Oei

The reader of my novels...

May think I'm writing, seated straight at a neat desk

Actually I get the idea of what to write while lying in bed

Now, will you help me with my work?

I don't see well these days. I can't write fast

Continued to Crescent Moon Part V

Write it in a corner

Is she a deity or a woman?

Spelling doesn't matter

I'll correct it later

Much though I hate to admit it, I'll need Tetsuzo's illustrations

As beautiful as a moon

As gentle as a willow tree

I don't know how to describe her

She has the beauty of every flower

Oei, how old are you?

How old am I? About 24, I think

It's time to get married

I'm too old

In a way

But Ikku said I was mature

He's always sarcastic

You get married. Being a widower isn't too good

Unlike Tetsuzo, I like to do the household affairs myself

I'm rather feminine

Your wife could live an easy life

Good women never expect such things

Women don't always mean what they say

I was married, you know

I'll go wash my hands

I've been in love with him. I'll never mention it

I'll drink up

What's wrong with women drinking?

South Wind in a Clear Sky

Thirty six Views of Mt Fuji

They aren't much

Only a few of them are acceptable

Which one do I like best? Decide yourself

To tell the truth, I think of Mt Fuji as myself

I sit magnificently and look down on people's lives

The Great Wave off Kanagawa

I've walked long

But my true life is just beginning

I'm only 89

Tenement House in Asakusa

Utamaro, Sanba Shikitei Ikku Juppensha...

They all passed away

All the interesting ones are gone

It's marvelous

I went to the employment agency for help in my doll-making

My side-job. I met her there

Don't pull me like that

Calm down and listen to me

My home village was ruined in the famine and...

Now I remember. You're Onao

Well! How do you know my name?

Onao must be very old by now

She'd be older than me

I'll be fortunate if I can work for Hokusai

His pictures are very popular

He's drawing for a festival float now

Are you from Obuse in Shinshu?

How do you know?

A scholar named Kozan Takai?

He's the greatest man there

I've been there with my father

My father drew for the floars there

I don't understand

Hurry and take me to Hokusai

Onao!

I've missed you so

What a nasty old men!

To her, the master Hokusai is nothing

Hokusai?

Is he Hokusai?

I can't believe

Have you really forgotten Tetsuzo?

You see? His name is Tetsuzo

The great Hokusai couldn't be living in a dirty sty like this

Excuse me

You came at the right time, Bakin

Say my name

Hachiyemon Miuraya

That's true. But how do they usually call me?

Picture-maniac

Come on!

Then Tamekazu or something

I'll knock you down

You've already changed your name thirty times

Have you found yourself a new name again, Hokusai?

Hokusai. It's come out at last. Hokusai

I'm sorry. I realize even a great man sometimes forgets

Bakin, don't you think she's like Onao?

Onao?

Who is Onao? I've forgotten

Oei, make her like the Oano of years ago

Dress her up

We've no money

Will you lend us some?

I heard you were always carrying all the money you had on you

I refuse. I'm old and money is the only thing I can depend on

Your nephew said he wanted to be my disciple, right?

So what?

If you give me ten gold pieces

he can use my name- Hokusai

Welcome

Some good kimono for her

Here's some money

What are you doing? Show them some good kimono

Welcome

Thirty six Views of Mt Fuji. Hokusai Cartoons

Visit to the Waterfalls

They are all splendid works

I'm very certain of that

I almost go insane when I think I'll be totally blind

I use many Chinese characters

If I dictate to some disciple...

He'll only use cursive kana characters

Hello

Hokusai, will you pay the rent? It's three months due

If you don't, I'll kick you out

I will. Today I will

Bakin, pay it for me. The rent for three months

Strange old man! Something wrong with me?

No, nothing

It's too much

Just take it

I hope it's not fake

It's real

Thank you very much

Are you one of the hopeless painters, too?

There is something! Getting hard after all these years

By the way, I wonder what brings me here?

No good. It's no good again

What are you doing? Look how old you are!

It's really disgusting

Where is Onao?

She's dressing up. She'll be back soon

I chose the best one in the store

Why are you so angry, Oei?

I know the Government forbids women's heavy makeup

And that they forbid us to wear expensive silk clothes

But they're going too far

I saw some policemen stopping women who were passing by

They said, "you must be wearing silk underwear."

And ordered them to show it

Did they get you, too?

They spared me. I was the only exception

It's snowing

It can't be. It's almost summer

You're wrong. It's the dark snow

There's a blizzard around me

I'll be going

Bakin's grown senile...

Hokusai's become senile at last

Poor old man!

Oei, I'm hungry

You've eaten just now

I'm back

Onao!

I remember the old days

Thanks. See you again

Do I look nice now?

Oei, I can draw now

I can draw a real woman-for the first time in my life

Do your best, Father

Your eyes-yes-your smiling eyes!

Strip

Strip?

I'll draw you naked

Undress

No! I don't want to!

I wonder where Hokusai went?

Sometimes he up and leaves. He'll be back soon

He left because you refused to strip

When he comes home, undress

Even if I don't, he can draw birds and flowers

Welcome home

Welcome back, sir

Where were you?

You're old. Don't just leave like that

Now, strip

Hurry, or my vision will fade

Undress

I wonder if he's insane...

Hurry and undress, or the vision will fade

Undress, just as I told you

No. It's daytime now

Can't be helped

It's for Father. I'll undress

I'm not going to draw a ghost

I'm going to draw a big octopus

and a small one on a woman

Octopuses! They're alive

This is going to be real fun

Suppose we're on the beach

And that a woman diver is lying on her back- unconscious

Think of this as the diver

She's opening her thighs, and around her waist... like this

The octopus moves so does the diver

The octopus sinks between the diver's thighs

Its tentacles stretch out...

I think I'll do it

That's it!

Everyone has some desires

You too

Me too?

We all have our desires

I'll do it

It tickles

Clammy too...

Look

Women bend their toes backward when they're excited

Like this?

More strongly. Until your legs hurt

It's hard...

I've been waiting for this, and the time's come

I have caught you-today at last

What a nice love nest you have!

I'll suck and suck it

I'll take you to paradise...

Well! What an octopus!

I'm breathing hard

I'm gasping

Use your suckers... More...

What I want to draw is...

Not the octopuses violating the woman

Instead, a picture of the woman fondling octopuses

This is a masterpiece, Father

Show me

It's very good. It's excellent

Oei, you must remember this:

My real masterpiece will be...

Not the Thirty-six Views of Mt Fuji

But the various phases of women who have desires

I'll draw them, so there's no mistake

Damn it! I wish I were young

Damn it!

You worked so hard. I'll massage you are!

What kind of boat it is?

A boat made of a bamboo leaf

I sent the boat as far as China

Do you know what they gave me when I came home?

A jewel box. A mirror

And beautiful clothes

Do you know whom those gifts were for?

They're for Oharu, the girl I love Where is she?

She went to visit her family grave

We were all children once

Children never get tired of anything I envy them

Bakin, are you totally blind now?

Can you tell?

I'm not over there. I'm here

Here I am...

I'll catch you. Don't cheat

I've caught you

I'm glad you could catch me

You deliberately let me catch you right?

Yes. I don't want to tell you lies

I'm glad I came. I'm glad I'm here

Though blind, you came all the way to see us?

I made up my mind never to go home again

I'm tired of living

I'm from a samurai family

I'll commit harakiri as a samurai should

Harakiri?

I'm hungry

With my eye trouble, my brain and mind are both in darkness

Even though I try to write, I can't think of a word

Being like this, I'm no longer Bakin Takizawa

I'm nobody

I'm just Sashichi, a dotard

Don't spoil yourself

Oei, kick him out

Death, get out!

I still have lots of things to do while I'm alive

No matter how old you may be...

It's better to live miserably than to die a peaceful death

I realize how it is - at last

You love Bakin

That's why you've never been married

Come on. Make love with him now

That's not the proper way to talk to your daughter

I thought you'd waste your life for my sake

But I know now what you really did

What he said- is it true?

Yes

Just as Father loved only Onao

you were all I had

I didn't know...

That such a good person as you was before me

I spend up my life

Just coming and going between my study and the publisher

Get out, the two of you

I disown you

I have Onao with me

I'll take care of him

Actually...

I'm the sort of woman who has something dirty and awful in me

I always want to do something others hate to do

For example, while showing you the way...

Saying this way is shorter...

I'd let you drop into a drain

That's how I feel

When Utamaro was popular, while my father was still unknown...

I thought I'd inform on Utamaro...

And have him jailed for his pornography

Don't let me drop...

I decided to leave my father...

Because I know he'd die, exhausted by the young Onao

I'd like to watch him die

Hokusai, keep working

Your pornography sells well

Draw anything - octopuses or eels

Draw a picture a day

Continue it for a year. Then I'll marry you

I wonder what's happened

I can't get excited

I can't feel that inspiration...

Something like burning flames

Oei...

Bring me the box

Open it

They're yours

You can live on them all your life even though...

It may not be very long

I was born poor and I'm used to poverty

So much money means nothing to me

Use the money for your father's funeral or something

You're really kind, aren't you?

My life has been...

A joy, because I could meet him

A real joy

Was it a joy to have met me, too?

Of course

Oei, I feel cold

Will you come in here and warm me up?

I've already built a grave for myself

I've written a death poem, too

Fleeing from all the worldly evils...

I'll return to soil

like a broken mud doll

How do you like it?

Do you think it's too logical...

Just like my novels?

I wanted to die...

Pressed against the soft body of a woman

Oei, you are old now

but you still have soft skin

Naturally. I'm not married

I'm still a virgin

Ohyaku, I'll come to you before long

Everything has gone as I planned

From the beginning to the end

May I suck on your breasts?

Yes, as much as you want

Are you excited?

Reality first?

I wanted to show you something realistic

You hate to draw us?

Indifferent?

How boring! What's the matter with you?

Have a nice time

Poor old man! He's like a mere shadow

Are you stopping?

I'm kind of disappointed

What a shame!

He missed the chance to draw pornography

Hurry

Hey, Oei!

He believes he's calling me

Here I am! I'm coming!

Fleeing from all the worldly evils...

I'll return to soil

like a broken mud doll

What a bad poem!

Bakin kept on putting on airs until he died

When it comes to that, my death poem is...

Now listen. I've thought of one just now

Listen

As a spirit, I'm passing through a field in summer

A field in summer is the point

I decided to die in the summer when I'm 101

I'm 90 now. It's time to quit making pornography

I have no time to play around with young girls

I'm going to study European-style painting for five years

I'll master it when I'm between 95 and 99

When I'm 100...

Then I'll be able to draw pictures I really like myself

I can hardly wait until then

I feel excited

Oei!

I wonder where she is...

Father, what are you doing?

You're dirty. Your clothes are torn, too

You can't do a thing without me

Serves you right!

Seems Onao ran out on you

Preparing for the festival?

The Torigoe Shrine's festival is coming

So is the Goddess of the Mercy's

I'm glad I moved to Asakusa

I'm the son of poor peasant

I had to work on the empty land

So I wanted very badly to live in the busy town of Edo

Mother...

At a theater very near here...

They're presenting a Nanboky Tsuruya play

It's popular

I wish I could take you there

I don't think there's anyone who'd remember me

Someone is calling me

St. Nichiren!

Glory to the Lotus Sutra!

You helped me a lot

As long as I believed in you you always watched over me

You're smart

You haven't prayed to him for years have you?

Thank you very much for giving Onao back to me

Go to bed now

I will, Onao

St Nichiren, actually, I want you to give back to me

Oei, rather than Onao

I want Oei to carry me on her back on a trip

For a woman, she was quite strong

I'm 70 now. You still want me to slave for you?

I'm beginning to be like Bakin

I can't see well. Than landscape is fading in the distance

Perspective!

Trying to be funny?

This is bad. It's because I wrote my death poem too soon

I should have drawn a picture instead

I made a mistake

A forlorn spirit like this in a field in summer

It wanders here and there, flying in the wind

It'll sell

I can buy you something then

Onao, bring me my brush

You're Oei

You made a big mistake, eh?

If you were married...

You could be enjoying a happy life with your grandchildren

It's getting dark

If Heaven allows me... to live 10 years longer

5 years will be enough

If Heaven permits me... to live for 5 more years

I'll be able to become a true artist

He died

They all say something nice

when they are dying...