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I...

...was thinking it might be best to sell the mountain.

Mr. Kurakake said if we're having trouble, he'll look

for someone to buy it from us.

Of course... I won't sell it all.

I'll leave half of the mountain, and sell the other half...

Is it because Dad can't move anymore?

But if we can get through two more winters, then

Yonosuke will come home.

Then even if Ainosuke goes back to Osaka, we can go

on the way we have been.

I hate to admit it, but...

I'm getting old, too.

In the past, even when Dad got sick, I could do the

work of two or three men.

But now, no matter how hard I try, I can't move

the way I used to back then.

TOKYO OKUMA RESIDENCE

Ready?

This is...!

Did you mean a match playing Go?

Okuma occasionally plays with Mr. Imai,

who always says that his big sister, Asa, is pretty good.

Thank goodness! I thought you meant a sumo wrestling match.

Ever since the newspapers printed a caricature of

Okuma sumo wrestling an octopus, I don't really

care for sumo wrestling.

Asa... Let's play!

Asa ga Kita

Week 24 "Grandma's Great Task" Episode 140

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

Kisuke: Hiroki MIYAKE

Ume: TOMOCHIKA

Chiyo Shirooka: Fuuka KOSHIBA

Miwa: Sumika NONO

Izumi Narusawa: Koji SETO

Heijuro Yamazaki: Shigeo TSUJIMOTO

Ayako Okuma: Keiko MATSUZAKA

Yono Shirooka: Jun FUBUKI

Hatsu Mayuyama: Aoi MIYAZAKI

I lost.

After a close battle, Asa and Ayako's first match ended

with Asa winning.

Thank you.

Up until this point, I thought I could win this match.

Thank you very much.

It's been a while since I've played, so I was tense.

Don't tell me that you lost on purpose?

No...

But I thought that I might have lost to you when

it came to the saying "Behind every successful man, there's a wise woman."

That's not something that you win or lose.

What are you saying? It's very important.

Sorry to keep you waiting.

I never expected the favor you wanted to ask was

for your daughter, Chiyo's marriage meeting.

I'm honored.

OSAKA ESTABLISHMENT OF A WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY OFFICE

I'm back.

Welcome back.

We'll take care of that.

You just worry about your speech.

Do you have a minute?

For the room at the hotel for the meeting, did you

want the biggest room?

Yes... Get the biggest room. We'll make use of it.

I'm sure it'll be good publicity.

Sorry to keep you waiting.

I put together the list of the people who'll be attending.

Thank you.

You work fast, don't you?

Thank you.

Kisuke... isn't this one for Shirooka a bit big?

No, it's not.

ASA SHIROOKA

Not like that, Sensei.

You have to make sure the corners match...

Really?

Sensei!

I told you... Not like that.

The corners don't match.

What's wrong with it?

"A gold coin for a cat."

"A school for cats."

Cats have nothing to do with this.

Are you okay, Grandma?

It's nothing... It's nothing, but I keep having to drink

more medicine... It's more than I can take.

You're so right.

What is it? I can hear you coming from a mile away.

Chiyo... I got a letter from Mrs. Okuma...

What does it say?

It's the date for the marriage meeting.

Keisuke won't be as busy with his university classes

toward the end of the year, so they're asking

if that would be a good time.

Aren't you glad, Chiyo?

Shall we go?

The next day, Asa headed for Tokyo on the first

train out of Osaka for the women's university founders' meeting.

There are people who believe...

...that women don't need a university.

In the past, even in Britain and America,

higher education for women was considered rebellion

against the government.

People opposed it saying it's like sending cats to school.

But that was a long time ago.

Right now, in powerful countries, higher

education for women is only natural.

But in our country, there are people who say

that it's too soon.

If we wait until we really need it, and rush to

establish higher education it'll be too late.

Also the opinion that education makes women impertinent...

That has more to do with the method of education.

In other words we have to change that.

The war has ended.

And half of our country's citizens are women.

Isn't it time for women's education to progress?

You're absolutely right!

Thank you!

Asa became one of the founders, and

the next day, they had a grand reception at the

hotel to announce the founding of the women's university.

With such a spectacular announcement of the

founding of the university, and with so many

well-known politicians attending, it was written up in the papers.

They created a sensation.

However...

They had a bigger response opposing their cause than supporting it.

That Narusawa is an impostor.

Using the names of great politicians like Ito and

Okuma for power and money.

He's just trying to gain popularity with his vainglorious exposure

when all he wants is to gather women to listen to his talks.

Here you go.

I found these things pasted outside to harass us again.

Again? They must have a lot of time on their hands

to keep coming back to paste these things up.

There must be a lot of other things that need to be done.

You're right. Sneaking around in the shadows.

They're such cowards.

I thought we'd get the rest of the money we

needed judging from the attendance at our

spectacular announcement.

It's because of the backlash from the war economy.

Even the bank is in danger.

And with the cabinet fighting like this...

We got this letter from Narusawa in Tokyo.

"I feel terrible for the common people, Ms. Shirooka,

"Mr. Yamakure, the founders, the students, my friends

"and the people for making things more difficult.

"I feel the weight of my responsibility.

"I could die a thousand deaths."

He's backing himself into a corner again.

The other day he said he caught a cold,

and when I went to see how he was...

He was lying in a tiny room covered in a

dirty, thin comforter.

He was wasting away.

He was saying that maybe he should go back to

teaching for now if we can't get enough donations.

He said that?

I'm so upset.

Why don't they understand?

When Mr. Narusawa and all of you are thinking about

the future of Japan and the future of women...

Nobu... You don't have to get so upset and cry.

That's right... Nobu...

Grandma... You're good at that, after all, aren't you?

Chiyo...

Will you give me a hand?

With what?

Meanwhile in Tokyo...

Mr. Higashiyanagi... What brings you over here?

Mrs. Okuma... I'm sorry!

Ms. Shirooka?

What is Asa up to?