Original subtitles

It's...

What?

The man I told you about before...

The man who wants to marry Fuyu...

Is that the umbrella shop owner who wants to marry Fuyu?

UMBRELLAW SHOP OWNER HEIZO YAMAMOTO

He left!

Asa ga Kita

Week 14 "The Course of Love in the New Year" Episode 80

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

Tomoatsu Godai: Dean FUJIOKA

Kisuke: Hiroki MIYAKE

Ume: TOMOCHIKA

Eizaburo Shirooka: Akito KIRIYAMA

Miwa: Sumika NONO

Fuyu: Kaya KIYOHARA

Hikosaburo Hino: Shozo KAMISUGI

Yono Shirooka: Jun FUBUKI

Are you sure about getting married?

It's just that... you don't even know what kind

of guy he is, and you're just going to marry

a man because your father told you to.

At least, you should meet him first before you

make up your mind.

No... It's what my father decided.

Even Ohatsu and Oasa married the men that

their father decided on.

Even if I'm not in the same social class, it's the same thing for me.

But... there's someone you love, isn't there?

I just thought that if you have someone you love,

and marry someone else it would hurt you...

But if you've already made up your mind...

It's okay.

Why?

Why are you asking me something like that now?

After I'd already made up my mind...

I decided I would do what my father tells me to do.

But if you say things like that to me,

it just confuses me.

You're so mean!

It's because I love you.

What I want most of all is for you to be happy.

After all, I'm your big brother.

Ume... Who is this man Fuyu loves?

I don't know.

It was the third day of the new year...

I'm home!

Welcome home.

Did you go around passing out our name card again?

I ended up drinking again.

Someone! Bring me tea.

I've never heard of anyone drinking at every place

he goes to. Normally, you just shout out your name,

and leave your name card when you go around.

It's not good for your health.

This is what I look forward to during New Year's.

We're going to the gathering at the meeting room this afternoon, aren't we?

The meeting room?

That's right. It seems it's been a while since Mr. Godai's been

there, so everyone's looking forward to it.

Mr. Godai?

He's been going all over Japan lately, so it's been

a while since we've seen him.

But I think I'll pass.

You two go on without me.

But I was going to work on the books.

That's right. Let's go together, Shinjiro.

But... I have no interest in that "shoho whatever"

or the stock whatever...

How can you just pass it off as "whatever"?

This is terrible! Just terrible!

What's wrong, Ume?

Fuyu's father finally came.

This is it... This is what I'm interested in.

So this is Kano-ya?

That's strange...

They have a magnificent looking storefront.

They haven't gone bankrupt yet?

FUYU'S FATHER HIKOSABURO HINO

In Kyoto, the rumor is that Osaka's Kano-ya bought

a mine in the mountain and it failed, so they'll soon be

going out of business.

Is that right?

Shall we go in?

Kano-ya's going out of business soon?

How rude!

Her father seems a bit eccentric.

Happy New Year.

I'm pleased to meet you.

I'm Hikosaburo Hino. I have a dyed textile shop in Kyoto.

It was nice of you to send us that letter.

I was just thinking that it was about time that

I start looking for a good man for Ofuyu...

But you beat me to it, didn't you?

What are you saying?

Letting my daughter work here for so long...

It really bothered me that I never came to introduce

myself to you earlier.

After he said we're going out of business soon...

Out of six sisters, Fuyu's the second to the last

of my daughters, so she was really peevish...

She cried a lot, got sick so often that I would

rather have had a dog or a cat.

How dare you!

She's no longer sickly.

Excuse me.

Dad... It's been a long time.

It's been a while.

Fuyu? This is Mr. Yamamoto who runs an umbrella shop in Taniyama town.

I wonder about Fuyu's father...

But Mr. Yamamoto didn't seem like such a bad man.

He's really in love with Fuyu.

Is he?

With the popularity of Western trends these days, a shop that

sells Western umbrellas must make money.

So to Ofuyu's father, he's a good marriage prospect.

They're talking about having her get married during the

lunar new year, so my mom's already making preparations.

That soon?

After I rewrote it so nicely up until this point...

Are you sure you want to leave it like this?

Don't run away... And think about this very carefully.

Head Cleric!

He's a good man, isn't he?

Someone like that is so unfair.

Even a man like me feels like I might fall in love with him.

Meanwhile, Asa was...

Happy New Year!

...already at the meeting room.

Happy New Year.

Mr. Godai.

After Toshimichi Okubo passed away, Godai established the

Osaka Stock Exchange and the Osaka Chamber of Commerce,

and was even more active now as the president there.

He sure is popular.

Of course he is. After all, thanks to Mr. Godai, the Osaka economy

that had been wrapped in a dark cloud for so long after the

restoration, has finally come back to life again.

I'm glad he's okay now.

What do you say we all go out and have a few drinks and celebrate today?

Let's go. Let's go.

That's a good idea.

Sake?

Sake is nice, but something like this for New Year's

is great, too, isn't it?

When I think of the cultural enlightenment, it's beer.

Thank you.

Have a seat.

Where's Mr. Godai?

Maybe later...

Happy New Year! I'm finally able to greet you.

Happy New Year! I'm indebted to you for all you did for me last year.

It was my pleasure.

I'm counting on you again this year.

Same here.

Are you drinking tea?

I can't let you see me like you did that day.

That's true. I'm sorry for what I did.

I'm a pretty strong drinker.

Even after having a lot, I can still talk about business.

But that day...

I just couldn't control my feelings...

What do you mean?

"Control" in Japanese would be "tonshimaru" or maybe

"ee guwai ni chosei suru."

I can't find the right words in Japanese.

But this is the first time we've talked like this

Since that day, isn't it?

You've been surprising me since that day...

In no time at all you established the Osaka Chamber of Commerce,

and became the president.

At that time, there were only about 50 members in the

Tokyo Chamber of Commerce, but in Osaka right now,

there are over 300 members.

We owe it all to you.

And at the opening day of the Osaka Stock Exchange, they

set off fireworks, so it was like a festival.

It wasn't just me alone.

At the beginning, there were a surprising number of people

against the Osaka Chamber of Commerce...

There weren't any people like you who was willing

to give me a hand with it.

Is that right?

But there was a key player who understood what

you and I were thinking, and spread the word to

everyone behind the scenes.

A key player?

Here he is.

It seems that key player is here.