Original subtitles

This person is...

Oh, my!

HATSU'S ELDEST SON AINOSUKE MAYUYMA

Ainosuke?

Aunt Asa... It's been a while.

Why did you come to Osaka by yourself?

Aunt Asa... I have a favor to ask you.

Please let me work at Kano Bank.

You want to work at the bank?

Asa ga Kita

Week 18 "Welcome to Our Bank" Episode 104

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

Kisuke: Hiroki MIYAKE

Gansuke: Takaya YAMAUCHI

Ume: TOMOCHIKA

Eizaburo Shirooka: Akito KIRIYAMA

Chiyo Shirooka: Fuuka KOSHIBA

Heijuro Yamazaki: Shigeo TSUJIMOTO

Yono Shirooka: Jun FUBUKI

So you talked to Sobei and the rest of the family

before coming here?

I did. Grandma was especially happy.

She thought it would be great if I could

work at a great bank like Kano Bank.

But growing oranges is respectable work, too.

When I was suffering, I don't know how

many times your oranges saved my mind and body.

Are you sure my sister gave her permission?

She did... My father chose a new path rather than

continue as a money changer that had

been in business for generations.

So shouldn't a child have the right to choose his

own path in life, too?

Your own path in life?

Please! From that last time we were here visiting,

I've always wanted to work at a big business like this.

Please let me work here.

All right.

Let me talk it over with everyone first...

I'm so glad.

But even if we let you work here, we won't

show any favoritism just because you're family.

If you're serious about working, you'll start

off as an apprentice.

Thank you.

It's not good that he can lie so boldly.

I think that Ainosuke probably ran away from home.

I suppose. Even if he really does want to work here,

there's no way that Sobei and Hatsu would send

him over here without letting us know first.

You mean you thought he ran away, too?

Of course...

When I was talking to him earlier, all he

talked about was how he longed to work at a bank.

Even if we forced him to go back home, it would

be terrible if he disappeared somewhere, wouldn't it?

That's true. I was thinking we'd let him work here,

and in the meantime, I'll write to my sister.

That sounds like a good idea.

The next day, Asa talked it over with Eizaburo and

Heijuro, and they decided to let him work as an

apprentice employee at the Kano Bank.

Can you all stop working for a minute...?

Let me introduce you...

This is Ainosuke who came here from Wakayama.

Be good to him.

I'm pleased to meet you.

Put more strength into it.

Okay.

This is no good.

I'm sorry!

Ainosuke!

Come over here.

Will you deliver this to Yama-ya?

Okay.

Good morning.

Where is Ainosuke going to be staying?

I thought I'd have him stay in one of the

rooms here in the house, so I'm having Ume get

a room ready for him.

That's good. The house will be even livelier.

He can have breakfast here with us.

That's true.

Thank you for your consideration.

I was surprised that he wants to work at a bank.

Just what you'd expect of a child born between the

Sanouji-ya and Imai-ya family.

Rather than farming, he might be more suited for working here.

Come to think of it, when he came to visit when he was

little, he was playing with my click-click thing...

Thank you for the meal.

Chiyo...

She left.

Chiyo's homeroom teacher asked to see me today.

Her teacher?

She's already in her fourth year at school, so we

need to discuss what she'll do after this.

I'm so grateful that she has such an enthusiastic teacher.

Being in the fourth year of higher elementary school

is equivalent to today's second year of middle school.

And this is...

Excuse us.

Come in.

The higher elementary school that Chiyo is attending.

Your daughter isn't too eager to learn.

I'm sorry.

But her grades aren't bad.

She especially has high grades in language and abacus...

The abacus?

That's the first time we've heard that, isn't it?

Chiyo hasn't said anything about it.

So what are your plans for her from now?

Her plans?

What path she'll take after she graduates...

In other words, what are your plans for her future?

Plans for her future?

Plans for the future... I like the sound of that.

You do?

If gives you possibilities to dream...

When I was her age, I was forced to train

for my marriage all the time.

That's true... Your only path was coming to be my wife.

That's true.

It's time for lunch. Let's hurry, and eat, so we

can go back to work.

This is the ointment Oasa told me to give you.

I hope it works on your mother's neuralgia.

Thank you.

Manager... May I ask you a question?

What is the most important attitude someone who

works at a bank should have?

He's asking about attitude...

We can hear our teacher, Heijuro Yamazaki's

most gracious words.

We all need to hear it, too, don't we?

Please sit down.

Sit down.

Thank you.

First, don't lie.

But the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of

people in the banking business who like to lie.

There are times when you need to bluff...

But if it's based on lies, and a business has lies stagnating the relationship,

the value of money will also lay stagnant.

Five years ago, when I came to Kano-ya, I thought there

was such a positive attitude here.

Eizaburo who was in charge, Gansuke, the assistant

clerks down to the apprentice all talked to each other

without discrimination, and there were no secrets here.

Come to think of it, everyone here

talks a lot, don't they?

There wasn't a person in the store who didn't

know who the head clerk had a one-sided crush on...

You mean Kisuke?

Together with the mistress who worked behind the scenes

with her bold attitude that left nothing hidden...

The reason I wanted to work here is because of that

positive attitude where there were no lies.

The mistress is much too honest.

I learned this when I went around getting people

to open savings accounts here...

There was a big commotion over the abolition of the silver unit in Osaka...

Yes, there was,

A lot of people came storming to Kano-ya, demanding that

we charge the silver notes to money... They gathered all the way to the river.

That was a terrible tame, wasn't it?

So it seems.

Everyone around was at a loss, but the mistress was the

only one who stayed composed.

We have to take care of someone who's

sick so we need money.

All right. We'll give it to you.

The mistress and the head clerk listened carefully to

what the people said and exchanged the silver

notes for money.

There are a lot of merchants who managed to survive

because of that.

That's true.

Thank you.

After that, there were a lot of banks opening,

but they were a lot of people who opened accounts with

us because they felt they owed us for what we did.

Is that right?

The most surprising one was...

Goto-ya.

Isn't he one of our biggest clients at our bank?

Come to think of it, he's here again today, isn't he?

That's where Oasa had her dress made.

They're the biggest tailor in all of Senba.

But Goto-ya used to be just a small secondhand clothing

store back in the Edo era.

But with the money we paid them, they started taking

in mending work, and expanded on that business to become

what they are now.

And with the trend toward western clothing, their

company will keep growing.

The tradition that the predecessors preserved for 250 years and the

trust that the new Kano-ya has maintained added to that

the positive attitude where there are no lies.

That's what Kano Bank is.

Trust is the most important.

There's nothing stronger than that.

Kano Bank realty is great, after all.

Ainosuke?

Chiyo-chan?

You've grow into a young lady...

That's right... I'm not your cousin now...

We're not in the same position now.

Welcome home, Young Miss.

Young Miss...? Don't be so sarcastic.

How is Aunt Hatsu?

She's fine.

I heard you had a request to write an essay.

I did.

As a representative of women in business, they want me

to write about what I think about doing business.

They want to do a series of essays.

I didn't learn reading and writing in school.

No... I like how you write your letters.

It's easy to understand.

Thank you.

Hei-san told me to accept any kind of requests that I get.

That way we can save on advertising cost.

I have to admit that rather than paying large sums

to put out ads, people will become more familiar with

our bank if you came forward to show what kind of person

is running the company.

You think so?

That's right. I overheard people talking at the

station saying that because Kano Bank had a woman

working there it was easier to come into the bank.

Really? So I guess a woman can come in handy sometimes.

Asa...

What do you want for Chiyo's future?

I...

Asa was perplexed at the sudden question.