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Mama...

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Mama...

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I need you to scratch my back...

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Scratch my back.

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Scratch... scratch...

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It was the great famine
of the year of Kanei 19.

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ŌTHE INNER CHAMBERS

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Where is all that smoke coming from,
Den'emon?

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It is probably smoke from the dead bodies
that are being burned on a pyre.

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Huh?

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She's tearing off the mud wall
to get at the straw inside

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so she can boil it and eat it.

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Wait, O-Yone!

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Slow down, O-Yone!

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Uh-- Huh?

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I've heard rumors
that there isn't any food left anywhere!

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Please, don't do this!
You belong here! You're one of us!

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I'm going to Edo.

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I might be able to find
some sort of work there.

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O-Yone!

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All right...

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Are you saying that you are willing
to share your food

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with all of us here, Lady Sato?

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Don't give me hollow words
when you know you can't help!

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Oh--

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Now, I believe we should move on,
my liege...

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Ahem. Lady Chie.

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Every peasant I met from here
treated us very kindly last year.

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I think the change is to be expected.

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A great famine of this magnitude has been
rare in recent memory, as far as I know.

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Hmm.

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Although there are quite a few
beggars coming from farming villages,

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the town of Edo Is livelier
than I imagined it would be.

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Daikon here! Fresh daikon for sale!

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MONEY EXCHANGE

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There are even more women
than I saw the last time I was here.

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The Edo I remember has
completely changed since I was a child.

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I know there is a shortage of men,

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but why aren't there
any young men working at all?

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Everyone here is afraid
of the red-face smallpox,

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and they tend
to keep their men safely indoors.

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Also, I see that many
of the women here wear their hair up.

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Uh...

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I believe it's because
it's easier to move around that way.

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Den'emon. I want one of those hair
accessory combs those women are wearing.

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BRIC-A-BRAC STORE

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How do you like it?

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Put your hair up in the popular shimada
style and stick that comb in,

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and I'm positive
that you'll look very good.

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Den'emon, get the money ready.

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Of course.

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This one, too.

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And this one, and this one. This one, too.

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My! Oh, terribly, terribly sorry,
my young Princess.

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Ah! Please, let me show you the back room.

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That is where we keep
our finest merchandise.

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Wait here, please, if you don't mind.

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May I come in?

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Welcome to our humble store.
I have brought you our merchandise.

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My name is Matabei,
the son of this family.

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Mmm.

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So, what did you think about our stock?

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Was there anything back there
that you found to your liking?

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Yes. The craftsmanship was meticulous.
The best I've seen. I'll be back.

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Give my regards to your son for me, too.

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Yes, yes. Of course, of course!

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We can't wait for you to return
and see us again.

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For you, Princess, our son is available
for eight ryo per session.

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And I do not offer this price
to just anyone.

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Now I understand.

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If I had cleared the room earlier
to be alone with him,

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I guess I could have been Intimate
with the son of that merchant back there.

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- Lady Chie...
- But, for eight ryo, though...

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Are all of the households
who still have sons

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renting them out like prostitutes
like that, at such expensive rates?

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How is a poor family supposed
to afford something like that?

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Hmm...

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Oh...

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This is Yoshiwara, Lady Chie.

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With the decline in the male population,
this shogunate-licensed red-light district

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no longer functions with
the same level of activity as it once did.

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Nowadays, there are only a few young men
left who sell themselves to women.

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- Hey, there!

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Are you gonna buy me, pretty princess?
I come at a fair price.

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What about it?

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I know my looks aren't that great,
but I'm only one bu for the night.

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One bu, and that's all.

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Den'emon!

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He seems to have suffered from syphilis.

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Hey, there! My boy over here is
actually young, unlike them.

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And he only costs two bu.

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- Hmph! We're leaving.
- Yes, milady.

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If I were the customer, I wouldn't
buy them no matter how cheap they were!

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A deranged lad or an old man?

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And I bet this is where wanderers
who were once farmers end up as well.

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Why is it like that?

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I do not think that women are coming here
simply to buy a night of pleasure, milady.

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Oh?

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I believe that those are the lengths
women are willing to go through

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to give birth to a child nowadays.

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Hmm.

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That was a sentiment that,
ever since she became a mother,

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Iemitsu was keenly aware of.

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My liege!

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I have told you many times before

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that you are not to unsafely sneak
outside the walls of Edo Castle like this.

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What were you planning on
doing if something had happened?

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I don't know what you mean.

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As you requested, I have not been anywhere
except the first wing in the Ōoku.

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Masakatsu! Masakatsu, where are you?

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Yes, my liege, I am here.

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Gather the Six Representatives.

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A peasant riot may break out
if we don't do something soon.

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- Please, my liege!
- Yes, Kasuga!

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These days, I'm better off walking
the town of Edo incognito as a woman.

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A group of men would attract
too much attention, you know that.

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- But, my liege--
- Don't worry so much.

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I've done this many times before.
I'm skilled at walking around unnoticed,

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and there is no way people
would know who I really am.

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So please don't fret. Okay now?

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Uh--

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To deal with this famine, we should build
a temporary shed in the middle of the town

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and feed rice porridge
to the starving people for seven days.

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- How naïve...
- Hmm.

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Uh, I think that's very kind of you...

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but, my liege, I do not think that

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feeding the people a meal
of rice porridge for a meager seven days

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will actually do anything
to save the peasants.

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If I may say.

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- Are you kidding?
- Uh--

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Of course this isn't going to do
anything to save the peasants.

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This is a plan to discourage all
the peasants from organizing an uprising.

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This has nothing to do
with saving them at all.

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So?

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Is my plan possible or is it not?

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Ye... yes. I'll get right to it.

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Hmm.

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Another concern is share-croppers working
for the land-owning farmers

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are running away because of the famine
and turning into drifters.

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Well...

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That is most inconvenient.

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We need the peasants to be making rice
more vigorously than ever

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during times like these.

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It's because the powerful
land-owning farmers

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are taking on dozens of share-croppers,

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but the share-croppers just run away
every time there is a famine.

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If small-scale peasants
start selling their rice-fields

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and become drifters
because they can't bear with the poverty,

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the farmers who buy those rice-fields
will become powerful land-owning farmers,

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which could be bad for us.

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We will have to prohibit
the selling and buying of farmland.

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We will only keep the peasants
with small, family-owned farms.

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Nothing any bigger than that.

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Bind them to the land and force them

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to work and toil
for the rest of their natural lives.

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Hmm.

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Arikoto, O-Tama was a far more
interesting man than I had expected.

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I had a feeling you would say that
after meeting with him.

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He's mysterious.

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His will to live is quite strong.
And he's lucky.

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Come to think of it,

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when he was younger, an older monk
chased us down and said something strange.

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Hey, there! Uh- -Hey, there! You!

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Young child! Yes, you over there!

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- Hmm?

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Oh!

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What do you want, old man?
Why are you staring at me like that?

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Now, now.

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Ah! How interesting. Yes.

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This child's physiognomy shows

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that he will become
the father of a ruler in the future.

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Huh, what a weird guy.

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I can understand if I were
to become a ruler, but why a father? I--

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- Hey, young boy!
- Huh?

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The name that I go by is Ryuko.

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I'm letting you know
so that you can thank me in the future

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when you find out
that I was right about this!

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Arikoto, do you think
that it would be better for you

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if that monk's words became true?

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Hmm.

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That is a cicada, my sweet little lady.

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It is the cicada's croak that lets us
know that summer is nearing its end.

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August 1st.

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To celebrate the anniversary of Tokugawa
Ieyasu's entry into the Kanto region,

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all of the feudal lords gather
at Edo Castle to express their gratitude.

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This day is known as Hassaku.

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The celebratory greetings
toward the shogun

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are made in the grand hall of the castle.

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You may approach!

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First, the ometsuke,
or lower superintendent officer,

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grants entrance to the audience.

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Next, the Senior Councilor, Matsudaira
Governor of Izu,

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states the words of gratitude
on behalf of the person.

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Matsudaira Terutsuna, Province of Kai,

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would like to thank our liege
on this first day of the eighth month.

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The shogun's answer is always the same.

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Delightful.

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Of course, the person sitting there
posing as the shogun

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is the shogun's body double,
Inaba Masakatsu.

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Normally, Nobutsuna was not
particularly nervous or anxious

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about this routine annual event.

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However, this year, all he could think
about was that somehow,

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the secret that his successor Terutsuna
was actually his daughter

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would get exposed.

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Lord help me.
She really pulls off being a man.

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It's been a while,
Governor of Izu, hasn't it?

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Well, hello, Governor of Sanuki.

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Hmph! It seems Senior Councilors have been
kept at a distance recently,

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only invited to the castle on occasions
such as this, don't you think?

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No, I don't think that, not at all...

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Bold of him to say it to the face
of the one responsible for that.

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Governor of Sanuki,
let me introduce my eldest son, Terutsuna.

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Go on. Please say hello, son.

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My name is Terutsuna, Governor.

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Ah. I see.

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And this right here is my son, Tadatomo.

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What is it? What is so funny?

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The son of the Governor of Sanuki,

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I'm positive of it,
that was actually his daughter.

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Not to mention,
there were many women dressed like men

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accompanying their lords
to the castle today.

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At first, I thought this was a great
chance for us to dismantle and restructure

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the powerful lords that
interfere with the shogunate.

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But what are we supposed to do with
so many lords without a male heir?

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There are lords on the brink
of losing their bloodline

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even in Tokugawa-related clans as well.

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Hmm.

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Honored colleagues.

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I know that all of you have your hearts
set against this, but why don't we...

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Why don't we consider allowing a woman
to be the successor to the feudal lords,

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if only just for the time being?

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Uh-- Now, wait a second. What on Earth
are you saying, Masamori?

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The female shogun would only be
a stopgap until the next generation.

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We can search for a son to adopt in
the meantime and make him the successor.

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How absurd!

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But, nowadays,
all of the peasants and merchants

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are handing over their family businesses
to their daughters anyway,

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in order to make ends meet.

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That may be the case with common
people such as merchants and peasants,

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but that simply would not work
with a samurai family,

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where being a warrior
and fighting in battle is their duty.

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If there are enough women to spare,

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men should have
as many concubines as they need

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so they can keep the bloodline going.

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But, Grandmother,

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we're lucky if only one out of five boys
can survive into adulthood.

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It's difficult even for a powerful feudal
lord with countless concubines

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to have a male successor.

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The world is no longer the same world
that you once knew, Grandmother.

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The turbulent warring states are
a thing of the past.

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Even if there were to be an uprising,

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there would not be enough men
to form an army with.

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You must see, crushing any more
of our feudal lord allies

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who rule the provinces along our outskirts

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may very well shake our establishment
to its core.

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And haven't you yourself
said to all of us here before,

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these are no ordinary times?

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We must do what we can
to protect the Tokugawa reign.

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If the increase in polygamy

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and the merger of feudal lords
were to continue,

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then the remaining few feudal lords
would own vast territory,

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becoming a threat to the Tokugawa clan.

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Since maintaining
and sustaining the family name

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is of paramount importance
in the culture of this country,

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regardless of social status,

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anything that could lead to the drastic
decline of the number of households,

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namely, the polygamy policy,
could not move forward,

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because it would result
in destroying too many households.

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Oh, uh, good evening, Honored Kasuga.

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What are you doing in your formal attire,
Masasuke?

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And what's more, it's fancier than usual!

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Oh, um...

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What on Earth...

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Turn around and let me see.

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Mmm! Turmeric embroidery
on a celadon green.

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And the kimono you're wearing,
a dark navy blue.

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The youthful colors suit you.

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But don't you think I need a lot more
embroidery if I want to outdo O-Natsu?

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- No, that's just fine.

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Any more, and it would only be tasteless.

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Arikoto-dono!
Where is Arikoto-dono?

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A chrysanthemum viewing!

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Are you opposed to it?

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Today is September the ninth.
It is the annual Choyo Festival.

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This is not the Imperial Court.

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Samurai who are supposed to be
protecting our honored liege

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are out there dressed up in formal attire
with hakama strings with matching colors

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and a koshita just for show!

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It's as though they're competing
with each other for style!

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Shame on you, when we smell the smoke

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from the burning dead bodies in town
every single day.

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I acknowledge
that I am a servant of the Ōoku.

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The new attire that I had freshly made
for everyone at the chrysanthemum viewing

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was paid for out of my own personal salary
that I received from our liege.

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You shouldn't have a problem
with that, should you?

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Besides, for today's party,

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our meal is not special
and is the same as any other day,

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so there is no extra cost there either.

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And the paper-covered lamp stands
we brought from each of our rooms.

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I don't think I wasted any money at all,
but what do you think?

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Not to mention, none of us have missed

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even a day of our swordsmanship classes
or archery training.

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I don't understand what problem there is
you could have with this,

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the men who are trapped here for life
seeking comfort for one evening

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enjoying the chrysanthemums together.

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Why, you...

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However,
it was this gesture of Arikoto's

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that would later turn the Ōoku

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into a showy, extravagant
money-guzzling bother to the shogunate.

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- Every single one of them...
- Oh...

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No one, not even my son Masakatsu, will
listen to what this old lady has to say.

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Now, now, Honored Kasuga.

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You shouldn't get so angry,
or it will be bad for your health.

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You shut your mouth, Masasuke!

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Huh?

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Honored Kasuga! Are you okay?

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