Original subtitles

Wearing a long sleeve kimono in this heat.

What's a woman doing standing around here?

Out of the way!

We finally meet again.

You...!

Who are you?

I have a feeling that I've met you before.

What? You forgot me?

I went through the trouble of looking for you, and

wrote to you from England.

England? Letter?

You're the one from Satsuma?

That's right I'm Saisuke Godai from Satsuma.

What a surprise.

That little tomboy turned out to be so beautiful.

Beautiful?

Asa ga Kita

Week 3 "A Visit From the Shinsengumi" Episode 16

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

Rie Imai: Shinobu TERAJIMA

Sobei Mayuyama: Tasuku EMOTO

Saisuke Godai: Dean FUJIOKA

Kisuke: Hiroki MIYAKE

Gansuke: Takaya YAMAUCHI

Ume: TOMOCHIKA

Miwa: Sumika NONO

Kiku Mayuyama: Hisako MANDA

Eitatsu Mayuyama: Tatsuro TATSUMI

Hatsu Mayuyama: Aoi MIYAZAKI

So you live in Osaka now.

I just came, so I don't know anything at all.

RICE EXCHANGE

Coming to the Rice Exchange dressed like that.

Your outfit is just as strange.

So this is the Rice Exchange?

I thought they were fighting over something.

What is that?

That flag.

That? It's letting them know the market price.

Market price?

Edo, Kyoto, Otsu, Akamagasaki... They all use the Osaka rice

market price as their basis.

In order to let them know the price as soon as

possible, besides sending out messengers, on a

on a nice day like this, they'll wave a flag from up high

like that to let people know the market price.

That's great, isn't it?

What a surprise.

Osaka is full of surprises.

While I was out West, I thought Japan was so small, but seeing

this town, it still has spirit.

Just looking at it is exciting, isn't it?

I feel like I could fly to Edo, Otsu or Akamagasaki in my mind.

I wish I could work with spirit like that, too.

Even if you turned into a beautiful lady, inside you're still the same.

Does that mean I'm still a child?

No! I meant it in a good way.

You're still the woman I fell in love with.

Live a good life... There will be big changes coming to the world.

The world will change?

Miss Asa!

We have to be getting back.

It's such a waste that you're someone's wife.

Let's meet again somewhere.

Wait a minute!

I want to ask you more questions.

That's right. Tell me your name again.

It's Saisuke Godai.

Remember this time.

Miss Asa! Could that man be the one who wrote you that letter?

That's right. Why?

Why did Mr. Godai send me a letter?

What does he do?

I don't know what's going on...

What did he mean by the world will change?

At the time, Asa didn't know...

The vortex of the era would keep growing bigger and

bigger within that year...

Engulfing all of Japan like a storm.

6 MONTHS LATER 1867 (3RD YEAR OF KEIO)

Excuse me.

Welcome!

Mother Imai...

I'm sorry for dropping by all of a sudden.

I had business nearby.

Mom?

Hatsu!

I'm so happy. Why are you here all of a sudden?

You must be tired. Hurry, and come inside.

You've gained a little bit of weight, haven't you?

I'm eating nothing but good food every day.

But I still haven't been blessed with a child.

It hasn't been a year since you married.

Don't let it bother you.

Thank you. Hearing you say that, makes me feel a little better.

How's Dad?

How's Grandpa and Kyutaro?

Everyone's fine.

But...

How's business here at Sanouji-ya?

Dad is having a really hard time right now.

So it must be hard even here in Osaka...

I was so worried that there's a chance

something should happen here.

Is that what you came to ask about?

Mother!

You came all the way from Kyoto just to ask about that...

Thank you so much.

I was just making small talk.

Is that right?

In that case, you don't have to hesitate, and answer her.

Go ahead. Just tell her honestly how things are here at Sanouji-ya.

Mom... Just let it go.

I don't know anything about complicated things...

I leave those things to my husband and the head clerk.

That's true. If you had a baby, you'd have more things to do, wouldn't you?

We leave the business to the men here.

What kind of small talk is that?

Besides, even if we aren't as prosperous as the

Imai family, Sanouji-ya isn't such a pitiful business that

people from the outside should be worried about.

Pardon my rudeness.

Mother... My mother has always taught me that

women shouldn't interfere with business matters.

She didn't come here for that purpose.

Hatsu!

I see! Then don't you have something else you want to talk about?

If not, maybe you should leave.

Did you see Miss Asa yet?

No...

After telling Asa that women shouldn't do things that are

none of their business... What am I doing here?

Meanwhile, Asa was...

Things haven't changed between Shinjiro, but

she's gotten close to all the people in the store,

and was spending her days as any merchant's wife would.

I finally finished it.

I'm sorry you had to mend my things.

What are you saying?

The young mistress is everyone's mom.

So it's to be expected.

You sound like any Osaka young mistress now.

Thank you.

But I'm worried...

Always being back here in the household,

I can't feel any of the changes in the world I heard about earlier.

Thank you, Young Mistress. You sewed this cute little

cat on my favorite undershirt.

Gansuke...

As a way for thanking me for doing that...

Will you teach me just a little bit about the store without telling, Father?

That's right... There's no way that Asa could be just an ordinary wife.

A money-changer's job is to exchange gold and silver.

We also lend money to the feudal lords.

Kano-ya has loaned money to the Choshu clan,

Satsuma clan and over a hundred different clans

that would amount to about one million ryo.

One million ryo?

Is it okay to loan that much money?

That's why we have to only loan money to people we trust.

Money-changers exchange money for trust.

So trust is important?

One million ryo is...

You know how to use the abacus?

What an admirable young mistress.

Her eyes are sparkling a lot more now than

when she's wearing make-up.

Young Mistress...

A messenger from your mother left this gift for you...

From my mother?

It's the "ayu" (sweetfish) confection that I like.

"With the changing wind, your father is riding a new wind."

This is...

There will be big changes coming to the world.

Don't tell me...?

Are you going out again?

I need to talk to you.

You do? I'll listen to what you have to say tomorrow then.

He's making me angry.

How could he...!

Pardon me!