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How's Father doing?

He just threw his back out...

Nothing to worry about.

He must have been really shocked

when he heard he had to get 100 thousand ryo.

You think so?

But why? Why does a merchant have to

get the new government the money to bring down the shogunate?

I can't believe we have to hand over our precious

money for something as foolish as that.

Even if it is foolish, the new government is

saying that they're going to war to start a new

era, so there's nothing we can do about it,

I wonder what the other money changers are planning to do...

That's right. What about my sister's Sanouji-ya?

Asa ga Kita

Week 4 "The Young Mistress Underlying Strength" Episode 22

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

Saisuke Godai: Dean FUJIOKA

Kisuke: Hiroki MIYAKE

Gansuke: Takaya YAMAUCHI

Ichizo Okubo: Shuji KASHIWABARA

Kiku Mayuyama: Hisako MANDA

Eitatsu Mayuyama: Takuro TATSUMI

Yono Shirooka: Jun FUBUKI

Shokichi Shirooka: Masaomi KONDO

Hatsu Mayuyama: Aoi MIYAZAKI

SANOUJI-YA

You should just turn them down.

Who has that kind of money?

But if we turn them down, and they shut us down...

We don't know what this new government is all about yet, do we?

Shogun Tokugawa might win.

That's true, but...

Mom...

Let's pay it.

I think it's best that we pay it.

Times have changed.

The Tokugawa rule is over.

We have to do what this new government tells us to do.

Don't talk as if you're so great... It's because

you haven't done anything up until now that we ended up like this.

Until you took over, Sanouji-ya was doing really well.

200 years... We've been in business for 200 years.

The business was secure for 200 years!

And look at what happened.

It's all your fault!

You should just keep your mouth shut and listen to me.

Are you eavesdropping?

Just what I'd expect of an Imai...

Such a good upbringing.

I'm so embarrassed you had to see me like that.

Right there! That's it. That feels so good.

Asa-chan. What do you think?

About the 100 thousand ryo that we have to

hand over to the new government.

Don't hold back, and tell me what you honestly think.

To be honest, I don't want to even put together a

single sen of money for that new government.

That's too honest.

Anyone can hear you.

But although it's vexing, right now, I think that

Kano-ya as to get the money for this new government

even if we have to go into debt.

My body got warm all of a sudden...

Will you open that sliding door?

It's a nice day.

But why do you think we should get the money

for the new government even if we have to go into debt?

Right now, Japan may be trying to greet a new morning...

That's what I thought.

A new morning?

My husband once told me...

If you think it through carefully before you

walk down a path, a new morning is sure to come.

I have a feeling there are people somewhere in this world who

thought this through carefully, and though they made mistakes along

the way they're waiting for a new morning to come.

I'm sorry... You're taking the time to listen to me, and all

I can say is something strange like this.

No... The reason why Lord Unayama paid you, and

Mr. Hijikata forgave you, isn't because you were saying

something absurd, but because your idea somehow made sense.

You're not good with words, but for some reason, you're

able to win people's heart over.

Shinjiro's changed a little, too.

No... I don't think my husband has changed at all.

Asa-chan...

Will you count all of our money?

I'm going to go along with your idea.

Kano-ya is going to tie ourselves to this new government.

All right. I'll do it right away.

And in that new government...

You want me to take part in this new government?

That's right. You know about the western world, so I want

you to take charge of the foreign office.

But I need to hurry back to our home province and...

SAISUKE GODAI (LATER KNOWN AS TOMOSATSU)

ICHIZO OKUBO (LATER KNOWN AS TOSHIMICHI)

You and I are no longer just people from Satsuma...

We've left Satsuma, and become one of the Japanese people.

We're Japanese?

I see... So it's finally come.

So we've broken out of a small enclosure to start

nurturing the country we call Japan.

You're doing something tin romantic again.

I'm sorry.

All the money you got them to repay us is just a drop in the bucket.

But...

I want money.

Please! Will you stop talking about such things in the bedroom?

But... This family is in a crisis, so this is

no time to be sleeping.

After you slept in a sailors' room?

What should we do to make money?

Now that you mention it, Saikaku Ihara once wrote...

A poor boy came to ask a rich man if there wasn't

a medicine that can cure poverty...

And the rich man quickly taught him how to

make a potion called "chojagan..."

Wake up in the morning five ryo... Family business 20 ryo...

Night watch 8 ryo... Settlement 10 ryo...

Good health 7 ryo...

You turn this total of 50 ryo into powder, and drink it

in the morning and night, and you're guaranteed to become a "choja" (rich person).

That's right.

It should be.

This book.

Can I read it?

Thank you.

My husband...

There's a continuation to that story about the medicine...

You read it already?

A man who learns musical accompaniment does

tea ceremony, bathing during the day...

These are more frightening than poison, so you must

not even think about them in your heart.

That's what he wrote.

Hurry home.

I'm no match for you.

However...

There was another shocking occurrence...

MAY 1869 (4TH YEAR OF KEIO)

The new government decided to make new money throughout

the country so you could no longer use the silver coins used in Osaka.

KANO-YA

You're finally open.

Good morning.

You're late. How long are you going to make us wait?

With this announcement, there was complete

chaos around Osaka, and a lot of people came to

the money changers to exchange their notes for money.

This is terrible!

SANOUJI-YA

They're all here to exchange the silver coin notes for gold.

If we exchange all of that, our business will go under.

What should we do?

They're demanding to see the owner.

They're all the way to the edge of the river, so

we can't get through the streets.

Father said his back still hurts, so he's in bed.

Won't they leave even if you tell them he's not feeling well?

No... They said if we won't exchange it, then they

want to see the owner.

They won't listen!

In that case, it's either me or you, Big Brother...

I'm not good with things like this.

But I can't let you go out there

That's right. You need to take charge here.

But I have no idea what to do.

I know... Asa...

I'll leave this to you.

I'm a woman.

If I go out there at a time like this, they won't take me seriously.

You may be a woman, but you're as smart as any man.

You're not an ordinary woman.

You're an exceptional woman.

Exceptional woman...?

You're an exceptional woman just as I expected.

Asa... Please...

Do something.

Everyone... Just as we've been telling you, the

silver coin notes aren't worthless.

We'll exchange them all for gold notes...

So please don't worry.

I don't understand what you're saying.

Hurry, and get the owner out here.

The owner is ill, so I'm here in his place.

Nevermind! Just get the owner out here!

That's right... We'll hear down a store that's of no use to us.

Ouch!

You unreasonable customers!

I've been bowing to you and apologizing

so you're taking advantage. I've had enough!

What are you saying?

Wait a minute.

Young Mistress?