Original subtitles

What beautiful oranges.

WAKAYAMA ARIDA

Here...

It's slippery over there, so be careful.

Okay.

Let me help.

It's okay... There's a certain trick to doing this.

And besides, didn't you come here to play and not to work?

Here...

That's right.

Since Asa knew how Ainosuke felt about business, her

feelings were complex.

Asa ga Kita

Week 19 "The Orange Season" Episode 110

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

Sobei Mayuyama: Tasuku EMOTO

Chiyo Shirooka: Fuuka KOSHIBA

Ainosuke Mayuyama: Daichi MORISHITA

Yonosuke Mayuyama: Daigo NISHIHATA

Nobu Tamura: Riho YOSHIOKA

Kiku Mayuyama: Hisako MANDA

Eitatsu Mayuyama: Takuro TATSUMI

Hatsu Mayuyama: Aoi MIYAZAKI

Hatsu...?

Yes?

Where did Sobei go today?

He took Shinjiro to Mr. Kurakake's place.

He said Mr. Kurakake's going to show him the sacred Shinto music and dance.

Is that right? Then that's perfect.

Asa?

You're in charge of what's called a bank now, aren't you?

That's right.

How was Ainosuke when he worked there?

Mother... Asa's here to play, so don't ask her things like that.

How was he?

Ainosuke was serious-minded and worked hard.

He worked with the apprentices to clean the hank, and helped the bank clerks.

Apprentices...?

How rude! Ainosuke's a child prodigy!

Stop it, Mother.

But Ainosuke was always at the head of his class, and did much

better than the village head's sons.

If he had been able to continue his studies, he would have

been better than anyone.

Please, Asa...

Won't you hire Ainosuke to work in your bank?

He always said he wanted to learn about business.

He said he really enjoyed working at Kano-ya.

I understand what the village head says, but

Ainosuke doesn't belong in Arida.

He's the son of Sanouji-ya.

He has a talent for business, it's such a waste to bury

him up here in the mountains because he belongs to the

village and what his parents want for him...

Please! Hire him.

Please fulfill his wish.

Grandma?

Ainosuke!

Tell her you want to work for her.

I'm sorry... I can't decide something like that on my own right now.

In that case... Never mind.

Let's go, Ainosuke. Let's go.

Let's go.

I'm sorry, Asa.

Mother wants Ainosuke to establish the Sanouji-ya name again...

Mother's been telling Ainosuke since he was little that he

should actually have been the heir to Sanouji-ya, the top

merchant in all of Osaka.

It seems somewhere deep down, it's what he wants.

Before he went to Osaka this last time...

Why did you abandon the money changing business?

I heard that Sanouji-ya was a money changer that was as good as Kano-ya.

So why abandon Osaka to become a farmer?

What are you saying?

Do you realize how your dad felt when he had to leave Osaka,

and choose this path in life?

Do you know how much hardship he suffered in order to clear

a place in this mountain, so he could grow oranges?

But I have no intention of spending the rest of my

life up here in the mountains growing oranges.

I...

...was so upset.

I'm sure he was just repeating what Mother told him, but...

To hear our son say things like that after what my

husband went through to finally make the decision

to take this path in life...

it really upset me.

Sis...

Ainosuke said...

He wants to be like you.

You're the little sister I'm proud of...

You not only protected the family, but you kept

making the business bigger and bigger.

You're a great entrepreneur.

But I...

I think that the whole family working together in the

mountain, growing delicious oranges is a path that's

just as good as the one you took.

Especially at this time of year...

It's hard work, but I really enjoy it.

The whole family picks the oranges, and

talks about all the things that happen during the

year it took to grow these oranges, and pick them so carefully...

It's hard labor, and my body hurts, but I love this time of the year the best.

To have the son I want to understand that the

most, not understand it, there's nothing more

upsetting than that.

I'm so upset.

I'm sorry... It's not your fault.

I didn't mean to say that to you.

But...

I'm surprised!

Whenever something happens to you, you just say that

that's just how it is, and accept it, but when it

comes to your own children, you look like that.

That's true... I can do something about

what's in my own heart, but it's hard to move

someone else's heart, isn't it?

That's true.

When that happened, Hatsu was more angry

than I was... I was so surprised.

I'm not as hurt as Hatsu seems to think.

After all, I got off the path that my parents laid out

for me, and my life is finally a lot easier.

That's true.

I know that taking the path that your parents

tell you to isn't always the best.

And being a farmer is really hard work.

Because I know how hard it is to run a business that

deals with money, I think this is a lot better, but...

But our kids don't know yet what's better.

But my dad and mom have gotten old.

Yonosuke is much too young yet.

And truth is that I can't manage this place with

me being the only male.

How unusual for you not to say anything, and tease me about it.

I was just thinking that you've grown into a

very respectable farmer and father without my even realizing it.

That's right. Thinking about the time when I used to

run around all the time, talking about money

it doesn't seem real to me.

I'm better suited for this. I don't need anything.

As long as I have my family here with me.

I wonder how my daughter's doing.

KYOTO SHIRAKWA GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL

Grandma... It's gotten cold. Now are you doing?

I'm enjoying my life here at school with my friends.

But...

The girl I'm sharing the room with won't talk to me again today.

Sharing a room with such an uninteresting girl...

I wish I had a more interesting girl sharing the room...

That was interesting.

I'm sorry! I finally finished reading this book.

Being able to borrow a book like this is just what you'd

expect of the well-known Shirakawa Girls' High School, isn't it?

I came to this girls' school to learn a new way of life for women

NOBU TAMURA

without relying on men.

What about you? Why did you come to this school?

What do you mean?

Rather than learning, I came here to train to become a bride.

Training to become a bride?

You're just as hopeless as I thought.

A hopeless woman?

That's right. You finally have a chance to learn, and yet all

you do is lay out all your kimono, and comb your hair...

It's no fun sharing a room with a girl with such low aspirations.

I have low aspirations?

The teacher said today in class that girls like you who only think about learning,

and talk about women's independence are destroying women's virtue.

That's because the teacher is old-fashioned.

What's wrong with a woman learning?

No! The teacher is right.

What's important in a girl's education isn't to make a person who's like

a man competent in the state of the world.

It's to learn the virtue of being a gentle woman who obeys.

No! From now on, women have to learn a lot, and devote

herself not to the home, but to our country.

That's very bold.

Depending on how hard she tries, a woman can become

as great as she wants.

I'm sure a woman like you wouldn't believe that.

This person has proven that.

This is the person that I admire from the bottom of my heart.

This is...?

Hatsu's little sister...

I need to talk to you.

What does Sobei have to say to Asa?