Original subtitles

I can't see him?

Please come back another day.

NARA TAMARI FAMILY

Do you think we can keep traveling back

and forth between Nara from Osaka?

I wonder if I should have gone instead.

But I don't like traveling mountain roads.

Excuse me... Is Asa here?

I'm pleased to meet you.

I'm from the new government.

My name is Saisuke Godai.. I was appointed as the

minister of the foreign office here in Osaka.

Did you know about me?

Of course... There are rumors among the Osaka merchants

about a Satsuma samurai becoming an Osaka official.

In the summer, we're going to open the Osaka harbor...

To prepare for that, I decided to live here in Osaka, so

I thought I'd come and pay my respects to Asa.

How do you know my wife?

I guess I'd have to say that it was fate.

Fate?

What a surprise.

Hey! Someone!

Bring us some sake.

Asa ga Kita

Week 4 "The Young Mistress Underlying Strength" Episode 24

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

Tadaoki Imai: Takeshi MASU

Sobei Mayuyama: Tasuku EMOTO

Saisuke Godai: Dean FUJIOKA

Kisuke: Hiroki MIYAKE

Tomonobu Tamari: Tsurube SHOFUKUTEI

Tadamasa Imai: Yoichi HAYASHI

Yono Shirooka: Jun FUBUKI

Hatsu Mayuyama: Aoi MIYAZAKI

Thank you.

I knew someone from Satsuma would be a strong drinker...

Is that Mr. Godai?

With his short hair, he s good looking, isn't he?

He can speak foreign languages.

He really is dashing.

That's not good.

Mistress!

He'll confuse Shinjiro.

Tonight, they've gathered a lot of unusual things, and

the wives are having a party.

If you insist on waiting, then wait here.

What is this place?

The sailors' room was better than this.

Let's give up if they're treating us like this.

It's the first time I've seen a real monkey.

It's so cute.

All right... I'm going to clean this place.

If we have to wart in a dusty place like this,

it's unbearable for us and the monkey...

You're very good.

Young Mistress...

I enjoyed having drinks with you.

But I want to ask you one thing.

Why is it that your wife, Asa went to borrow money instead of you?

That's a good question...

My job is to sit in the store and smile.

I see...

It's a tough time for money changers, but please live a good life.

Here you go.

Live a good life.

So it was you.

KYOTO IMAI FAMILY

This is pathetic.

Having you come home to your family for something like this.

Please wait here.. I'll go alone, and talk to them.

I can't let you do that.

Please! Lend us some money.

At this rate, Sanouji-ya will be finished.

If you could lend us the money, I think

we can overcome this crisis.

If I lend you the money, do you have a way to pay it back?

In business you need the insight to look

ahead to the future and have the determination

to stick to that path.

I can't loan you the money.

Why? Why can't you lend them the money when

you know they're in trouble?

Your daughter's asking you.

Please say something, Father.

But there's nothing I can say.

Why?

Why

Mom...

This is for the best.

My husband and I are desperately in need

or money, but deep down inside, I wanted you to turn us down.

Hatsu!

It's what little pride my husband and I have left.

She was cleaning out the horse stable?

And it's really clean.

The entertainers who train performing

monkeys said they were truly indebted to her,

and they left.

Then maybe I should meet her once.

Thank you for your hard work, Young Mistress of Kano-ya.

I'm sick of fellows coming to borrow money...

But this is the first time I've met someone who

even took care of a monkey.

I give up..

TOMONOBU TAMARI

You win.

No... Thank you very much for seeing me.

Raise your head.

But in business, compassion for others must be avoided.

I don't take dangerous chances in business.

If I lend money to a money changer that's on the

verge of death, can you repay the money?

Well...

A new morning will come to the world today...

A new morning?

If the world changes, new businesses that suit the

times will come out.

Kano-ya doesn't only want to be a money changer...

We want to make money in a new business.

A new business?

I'd like to know what it is.

I can't tell you.

You ask me to lend you money, but you won't tell me what it is.

Merchants are engaged in a fierce competition...

What Kano-ya will do is a secret.

You don't want to show your intentions for a business, do you?

Your eyes don't waver.

You have guts.

With that kind of ardor, you can do something enormous.

All right. I'll lend you the money.

You will? Thank you! Thank you!

Soon you're going to be the top female merchant in Japan...

When you do, don't forget that you owe me.

I won't forget.

Having forgotten that you owe us for loaning you

money in the past and making us wait in the

horse stable... Asa from Kano-ya will never forget

her obligation to you.

You got me again.

Asa succeeded in getting a non-interest bearing note from Tamari.

Aren't you glad?

But, Young Mistress...

What's this new business we're going to be doing?

That's...

Something I haven't thought about yet.

You haven't thought about, it and you told him that?

That's right. I was so desperate...

You really are an unbelievable young mistress.

Sis?

Asa!

Sis!

You're looking well.

You, too.

You two are as close as ever.

Where did you come from?

Asa...

It's nothing...

But...

Let's both do our best.

No matter what happens, we both have to do our

utmost to protect our families just like Dad said.

I'm glad I saw you.

We're in a hurry.

Sis...

You resent my family, don't you?

If you had married into the Kano-ya family,

this wouldn't have happened to you.

You didn't know?

Welcome home.

My husband...

Well done, Asa.

Shinjiro was actually supposed to be your husband...