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Are you okay?

I won't give up.

Oasa...

Fuyu!

Oasa! Oume!

It was Fuyu, who had been sent from the Imai family

to be Hatsu's attendant at Sanouji-ya in Osaka.

What a cute young girl.

Fuyu!

Asa ga Kita

Week 4 "The Young Mistress Underlying Strength" Episode 20

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

Gansuke: Takaya YAMAUCHI

Ume: TOMOCHIKA

Kiku Mayuyama: Hisako MANDA

Eitatsu Mayuyama: Takuro TATSUMI

Yono Shirooka: Jun FUBUKI

Hatsu Mayuyama: Aoi MIYAZAKI

You mean Sis was at home?

Lately, she doesn't even go out with her husband.

She's forbidden to even write letters.

Letters? I got a letter...

But she really isn't sick or injured.

She's always looking at her amulet while thinking

about you and it helps her to regain her spirit.

I'd like to talk more, but if I don't hurry back,

they'll let me go.

That's ridiculous! You're the young mistress' attendant.

But lately, it seems that there are less and less employees working...

The workers...?

Sis must be feeling uneasy.

Kisuke... Do you have the portable brush-and-ink case?

Kisuke!

I do, but...

I'm going to answer her letter...

The head clerk is walking by.

I have to go.

Wait just a minute.

Give this to my sister.

You're the only one I can trust.

All right. I promise to give this to her.

Take care.

You take care, too.

Sis...

SANOUJI-YA

I'm back.

Welcome back.

According to the head clerk, you got something from

Kano-ya out on the street there.

No... I didn't.

Give it to me.

Just give me what's inside your kimono.

I don't have anything.

Wait a minute!

Someone! Catch her.

Hurry!

I don't have anything.

I'm terribly sorry!

It's okay. Thank you for going through all that for my sake.

Didn't Mother do something to you?

No. I didn't have anything inside my kimono, so she

thought the head clerk must have been mistaken and

she didn't punish me.

I see... I'm glad you're okay.

But... After Oasa took the trouble to write that letter...

How was Asa?

It seems she went to a clan storehouse to

demand payment for money that Kano-ya lent them.

Why is Asa doing something like that?

Don't tell me that Asa's family is having some financial trouble?

I wonder what's happening outside.

I'm the only one who's ignorant of the real

world and I don't know anything at all.

Ohatsu.

It's my fault that I'm so ignorant of the

world now... I know nothing about the

business, and I did everything Mother and my husband told

me to do... I thought that was for the best.

But maybe I shouldn't have.

Asa...

Young Mistress... I'll do that.

Why did I write something like that? Now that I think

about it, there were a lot of better things I could

have written to her.

Did you write a love letter?

A love letter?

No! Maybe it was.

Sis!

I'll have to do my best, too.

UNAYAMA CLAN STOREHOUSE

Excuse me.

Asa went to the clan storehouse every day.

But with the chaos in the closing of the Tokugawa

shogunate regime, the clan members wouldn't take her demands seriously.

Let's go.

But Asa wouldn't let something like that stop her.

What is she doing?

She's sumo wrestling.

Lower your hips.

Lower.

What are you doing?

What's with her?

I'll be back until you repay us, I'll come

back as many times as it takes!

SANOUJI-YA

Please continue to do business with Sanouji-ya.

Did a messenger come from Shogun Tokugawa again?

The samurai came again to ask for money.

A money changer isn't a horn of plenty...

We don't have that kind of money...

Sobei!

We can't let people know that our store is having difficulties.

That's right. Even if they're talking about resting the

imperial rule, the reign over the country won't change that easily.

Even if we're having a hard tame now, if they owe us

a debt of gratitude and something happens,

they'll help us.

Is that really true?

Did we have a visitor again?

It has nothing to do with you.

I heard from the workers that my sister has been

here a number of times.

Lately, there are bad rumors about your sister going around.

She seems to have forgotten she's a woman, and she's

been wandering around the samurai residences every day.

Asa's doing what she can in her own way to protect her family.

Protect?

Our father told us that a wife's duty is to protect her family.

So even it's just a little bit, please tell me...

What's happening now?

What's going on outside?

Your duty is just to have a child.

You haven't even done that, so don't pry unnecessarily.

Are you going again?

He hasn't repaid even one sen, has he?

No... But if he even pays us back one sen, all the

times I've gone there won't be a waste.

The Daruma doll has a surprising amount of spirit.

Asa!

What have you been doing outside lately?

Me?

Lately, every time I go to see a play or out for

flower viewing, everyone laughs, and says to me...

"Isn't it nice that your son's bride is such a hard worker?"

Is that right? I'm not really a hard worker.

They're not praising you.

Rumors are going around that the great Kano-ya is making

their young mistress go out, and demand payment...

I just can't...

Mom...

Calm down.

It's been hurting the mistress.

I'm terribly sorry, but...

With the turn of the era, the world has become bloodthirsty.

The money changers that had been the center of Osaka's

economy were subject to a number of misunderstandings

and were harshly criticized by the public.

Who threw this rock at our store?

But the money changers were suffering, too.

Why would they do something so terrible?

The account management here again today?

That's right. So go on home.

I've been here every day, and he's been out every time...

All right. In that case, I'll just wait until he returns.

He's not coming back tonight.

It's okay. I'll stay here until he comes back.

Stop that.

Are you really staying?

I don't like it.

Stop that If a woman stays here for a long

time, what will the people around here think?

That's right.

I see... Then where can I wait?

It smells in here.

Here?

That's right. This is the only place you can spend the night.

How about it?

What a surprise.