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And finally in 1888, Kano-ya...

What are you doing, Mom?

What do you mean?

I'm just getting ready.

What a surprise! So you finally ordered a dress?

I ordered it just for this day.

I can't have people calling me that

mistress who's like a sumo wrestler or growing a

beard, so people won't be able to trust me.

And since you're always telling me, I even tried

putting a little bit of make-up.

What do you think? How do I look?

It doesn't look good on you at all.

She ran off!

Chiyo! Chiyo!

Hurry, and change!

Today's an important day.

It really looks good on you, Asa.

You look like a noblewoman in one of those woodblock prints.

Thank you. You're the only one who says such sweet things to me.

But this really is easy to walk in.

It sure is.

I'll walk, too.

Let's walk.

Asa ga Kita

Week 17 "My Final Duty" Episode 102

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

Gansuke: Takaya YAMAUCHI

Ume: TOMOCHIKA

Eizaburo Shirooka: Akito KIRIYAMA

Chiyo Shirooka: Fuuka KOSHIBA

Chiyo Shirooka (child): Rio SUZUKI

Miwa: Sumika NONO

Izumi Narusawa: Koji SETO

Heijuro Yamazaki: Shigeo TSUJIMOTO

Eiichi Shibusawa: Yuji MIVAKE

Yono Shirooka: Jun FUBUKI

Hatsu Mayuyama: Aoi MIYAZAKI

In 1888, money changer, Kano-ya became Kano Bank.

Congratulations!

Thank you, Yamaya.

I see we're all here. Let's do it.

We're going to close it Osaka style.

A show of hands, everyone.

Clap your hands.

Once more.

Both hands, three times.

Are these goldfish?

This morning, a goldfish peddler went by, so

I bought them for you, Chiyo.

Thank you, Grandma.

You did?

Don't tell Asa.

When Chiyo was going to buy one, Oasa

told her that even though we're doing well right

now, we don't know when we could lose it all, so

Kano-ya's daughter mustn't be extravagant.

That's right.

It's the opposite of when I was growing up...

The daughter of a large store should always

be dressed beautifully.

That's so true.

Chief Clerk...? Are you going on a journey somewhere?

Yes...

Chiyo... Don't you care for your mother?

I really didn't care for her...

I never did care for her.

And yet, there was something about

her that was so enjoyable.

Be sure you watch your mother at work.

Gansuke! Wait a minute.

Wait! You're not going to leave, are you?

TOKYO

To think we're in an era when a woman would establish a bank.

OSAKA KANO BANK OPENS

WAKAYAMA, MAYAUYAMA FAMILY

Congratulations, Asa.

That's really great.

Asa, Eizaburo, and all of the workers at Kano Bank made

the effort to do what the god of banks, Eiichi Shibusawa

taught them, and worked to gain people's trust.

Excuse me... Hello. I'm from Kano Bank.

Kano-ya... Thank you for coming.

Not at all.

You want to build a classroom?

I thought we could build a place where the workers

at Kano Bank and Kano Commerce can go to

learn about business after they finished work.

I'm thinking of having you be the teacher, Hei-san.

And we could invite someone from outside once in a while.

Since I was little, Dad and Gansuke taught me a lot,

and it was really useful.

But will everyone pay a tuition to learn something like that?

No... The company will pay for their education.

The company will pay?

We mustn't be stingy... Education is important.

I'm sure we'll get a return on it many times over.

All right. I'll be leaving now. Let's not waste this.

I'll be leaving, too.

Thank you.

Please come again.

Speaking of education, the prime minister,

Mr. Shibusawa and others feel that girls need to

have higher education, too.

So they set up the Institution for Women's Education, and

opened a school, didn't they?

That's right. I have to hand it to Mr. Shibusawa...

He's quick to do things.

What about Shinjiro? Did he go to Amagasaki again?

He's busy trying to establish the company there.

That's nice but it's lonely.

That's true.

When I see young couples like that, I envy them.

At the beginning, there were nothing but men coming

here, but lately, I'm finally getting customers like that.

Speaking of my husband, I went to Amagasaki

once to see the place.

I wondered what kind of company the men from

the Noh chanting group were establishing.

And there were about 30 well-known Osaka

businessmen gathered there.

And my husband was being thrown up in the air, and

it seems he's going to be the company's first president.

Shinjiro is going to be a company president again?

That's right... I wonder if he's going to be okay.

I'm sure he'll be okay.

You know how much trust people have in him, so

if he's in trouble, someone will step in to help him.

He seems to just naturally have the trust that I've

been working so hard to build.

I wonder why.

That's right... I have an unusual confection, so

if you want, you can give it to Chiyo as a present.

Thank you.

Confection...? I have to make sure she brushes her teeth.

You quit your job?

I wondered why you suddenly came back from Niigata...!

It can't be helped...

IZUMI NARUSAWA

Being a school principal and a minister, I don't have time for my own education.

NARUSAWA'S WIFE KANAE

I know, but...

After Mr. Sawayama and Mr. Niijima from Doshima

helped to get you the position...

I'm...

...thinking of going to America to study.

A WOMAN'S DUTY BY IZUMI NARUSAWA

I want to study in earnest to make my dream a reality.

He looks like he really enjoys eating.

Asa and this man whose eyes are sparkling with a dream

will have a fateful encounter several years later...

But that's not going to be for a little while yet.

Then three years after the bank opened...

Kano Bank had become one of the top ten

big banks in Osaka.

And Kano Commerce, the trading section of Kano Bank

was also doing well.

Eizaburo and Sachi now had a daughter...

KANO BANK PRESIDENT'S OFFICE

They had a new home nearby

where they lived as a family.

Eizaburo asked Yono to come and live with them, but...

I want to live here where I have all my memories

of my husband...

But... Our house is bigger, and we put in all the

latest designs, so it'll be a lot easier on you...

I appreciate it, but it's just so hard for me to leave here.

And besides, I'm worried about Chiyo...

Chiyo?

I'm sorry, Mom... It's because Asa and Chiyo are...

Chiyo's closest to me.

That's so true.

So I have to stay with her until she's a little older.

And Shinjiro wasn't only the president of Kano Commerce,

but the first president of the Hanshin Spinning Mill...

He was gradually becoming well-known in the Osaka financial circles.

Are you getting together here again?

Didn't you say you were coming home early today, so you can

verify and sigh off on our income and expenses?

You're right. I'm sorry.

And of course, it was Asa who was prodding him along.

KANO BANK BOARDROOM

Along with the bank, Asa

would go out to the Kyushu coal mines regularly,

and was working harder than ever.

Mistress Asa is really something.

Someone is coming to talk to her to write a story

about her in the newspaper...

She's getting to be even greater...

She hasn't changed that much inside...

That's so true...

What's so great about her?

Someone like her!

Chiyo!

As a woman, she's the

last woman I want to be like.

I see! That's fine

I just can't wait to see what kind of a woman

you turn out to be.

It's started again.

Are you two glaring at each other again?

Stop it!

That doesn't work.