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You sure have become a fine mom, haven't you?

What about you? You're a respectable merchant's wife.

Mom likes the bank more than me.

I envy you.

Being born into such a wealthy merchant family.

What do you think someone who runs a bank wants the

most and is the most important thing?

It's trust, isn't it?

That's correct.

It's been 10 years since Asa's dream...

And Kano-ya has finally become Kano Bank.

Asa ga Kita

Week 18 "Welcome to Our Bank" Episode 103

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

Ume: TOMOCHIKA

Eizaburo Shirooka: Akito KIRIYAMA

Chiyo Shirooka: Fuuka KOSHIBA

Heijuro Yamazaki: Shigeo TSUJIMOTO

Yono Shirooka: Jun FUBUKI

Hatsu Mayuyama: Aoi MIYAZAKI

Kano Bank had added branches in Sakai and Kobe, and was growing steadily.

1891 (MEIJI 24)

Thank you.

Welcome home. The reporter is inside waiting for you.

I'm back!

It really was difficult.

Japan never had the custom of leaving their money

with someone else.

It's hard to get people to open savings accounts.

Although it looked as if things were going smoothly for Asa,

the source of her problem was...

CHIYO SHIROOKA

This one is nice. It's so elegant.

Is it? In the past, this type of design was popular.

I'm home!

Dad! Welcome home.

Welcome home.

What's that?

Today they want to do a story about Asa in the

newspaper, so they're here to talk to her.

They said that she's a great business woman who

rebuilt this business that was on the verge of

collapse during the Restoration, and made our bank successful.

A business woman?

It's unusual for a woman.

I don't see why... It was Asa who worked so hard for the

sake of the business.

That's right.

She was always out front in the store while she

left the household to Grandma, Ume and the others...

And to you, too... She left my care to others, not giving a

single thought of me, and now she's acting like a business woman.

Chiyo! You mustn't say mean things like that.

Your mother spent years working hard to rebuild

our store into a big store like it was in the Tokugawa era.

You should be grateful to her, so you mustn't say such

hateful things about her.

That's right. I've told you many times, haven't I?

The reason you're able to wear beautiful kimono

like you're wearing now is because your mother

got us through the period after the Restoration.

Even if you say things like that, I don't know what

the Restoration is about.

You don't know what the Restoration is about?

That's true. Chiyo was born after the era changed.

That's right. For someone born in the Meiji era

like me, when people talk about the Restoration

and I learn about it in school, it doesn't mean anything.

That's true, but the Tokugawa family

that was in power for 250 years...

Listen to me, Dad.

When you mention the Tokugawa family to me,

all I can say is "Who is this Tokugawa anyway?"

My goodness! It was such a big thing for us...

That's so true.

This is a surprise. I guess this is the difference in

generation, isn't it?

That's right. That's what it is.

It's nothing to be surprised about.

How could you be so carefree and laugh about it?

Are you finished talking to the reporter?

I did.

Chiyo! What do you mean by "Who is this Tokugawa?"

The Nara Capital, the Heian era, and the Edo era are also contiguous

to the Meiji era... That's why the study of history is important.

You need to know how the country of Japan came about.

You can't go on with this miserable attitude...

It's no fun at all listening to you.

I can't believe she said you're no fun when

people always talked about what a strange child you were.

That's so true...

I brought you gifts.

This is for you.

Thank you.

This is for you, Asa.

Why?

Why do you always talk to me like that?

I'm saying you're no fun because you're no fun.

I enjoy listening to Dad and Grandma, but listening to

you is like listening to the principal with his thin

drooping moustache lecture us during morning assembly.

Thin drooping moustache?

See? Like this

Stop it! Stop this already.

Whenever Asa and Chiyo see each other, they

always end up fighting.

That's the kind of mother and daughter they were.

I'm sorry.

That's right... What good is it if you stand in the

same ring as your daughter when you're her mother?

You're right.

If we're going to be in the same ring, I'd rather

sumo wrestle with her.

Don't be ridiculous!

Don't even think about sumo wrestling your own daughter.

I'm sorry. But Chiyo really does hate me.

Where did I go wrong in raising her?

I don't think you can say you went wrong...

What?

Nothing.

Your gift. Don't toss it aside again.

That's right. Thank you for your hard work.

How was Amagasaki?

We were discussing how to get through this terribly

bad economy, but...

As usual, while I was saying, "ur" and "sun," we were

able to get things straightened out.

Saying "un" and "sun" as usual...?

That's right. Lately, I not only say "un, sun" but I imitate

Hei-san and tried saying "hei."

This turned out to be a really convenient word...

If I say, "hei" in this tone... It sounds dignified...

If I say, "hei" like this... It sounds friendly...

If I say "hei hei" I can skillfully handle whatever comes up.

No matter how I use it, it sounds good.

So you just say "un," sun" and "hei"?

That's right.

If I have these three, then even having me as the

president, we can manage.

I have to thank Hei-san.

Saying something so ridiculous again.

But if you managed to straighten things out

like that, then I thank you for your hard work.

Thank you for your hard work.

It's a ticket!

What a strange hobby.

During this time in Osaka, besides the spinning mill

that Shinjiro undertook, various industries grew rapidly...

It developed at such a rate that it would later

be called the Manchester of the Orient.

And Asa in her western dress and Shinjiro in his kimono,

walking around town like a happy couple became

well-known throughout Osaka, the growing center of business.

Besides running the bank, Asa started a new business selling

raw cotton wholesale to spinning mills in place

of Shinjiro who was busy working in Amagasaki.

The raw cotton business volume has gone up

quite a bit, hasn't it?

But the raw cotton these days are so expensive.

I want to start expanding, and import raw cotton

from America and India, but we'll have to pay a high tax.

And at Kano Bank...

Asa was able to build the classroom she always

wanted to where the employees could learn

the knowledge and morals of business.

She had the clerks and apprentice learn about

business from Heijuro who had become the manager of Kano Bank.

We can't say that we've totally recovered from

the previous year's poor economy.

At regular banks, when that commotion occurred, they

were able to scrape together cash right away from the

head office and branches.

This when all of you have to rise up quickly...

This is important.

You were sleeping, weren't you?

Shouldn't you have gone today?

Asa said she wants you to come with her to the

classroom and learn, didn't she?

I won't go. Why do I have to go to school during the

day, and go to learn at night, too?

Who wants to learn about business anyway?

That's because after Oasa came to Kano-ya and

was able to learn about business when she was

young, she really enjoyed it.

So she wants the same thing for you.

That's true...

Asa is probably thinking of letting you work

in the family business like her after you get out

of higher elementary school.

Chiyo working in the business?

I don't want to. You must be kidding.

That's no way to talk.

Thank you.

In Osaka, there are a lot of business people who want

to succeed like your mother.

Come to think of it, she was telling Sachi to

come and learn with her when she can find time

from child raising.

No! Not my wife. Ume!

You're contradicting yourself, Eizaburo.

No... But each person has certain things they're

good at and things they're not too good at.

Thank you. I'll take this, and go home.

Be careful on your way home.

Say "hello," to Sachi.

I have no intention of working in the family business.

You don't? Then what kind of woman do you

want to be, Chiyo?

I want to be a good wife like Grandma and Sachi.

I'm so happy to hear you say that.

And I want to be like Aunt Hatsu...

I wanted to meet you.

And become a kind mother like she is.

I see...

That sounds like a good thing.

Just as you wanted to you've become a

great business woman.

Business woman?

No... It's been three years since we opened the bank

I've always wanted...

I have to make it even bigger.

I see...

I don't really understand it, but do you always have

to continue making it bigger like that?

Even if it's going well now, if let my guard down, and

a bank comes out with something new, it'll be disheartening.

As it is, I don't really know what I should be aiming for now...

I'm home!

Shinjiro! Welcome home.

Where did you go?

You were so late coming home from work that

I thought I'd go out, and have a drink...

When I ran into an adorable friend right outside...

Adorable friend?

Come on in...

This person is...

Oh, my!