"Dearest!" "Dearest!" "SAZEN" "The Jar Worth One Million Ryo" "TO YOKAWA Etsushi "Sazen"" "WAKUI Emi 'Ofuji'" "Original Novel HAYASHI Fubo" "Screenplay EDOKI Jun" "Producers EDOKI Jun KAWASAKI Noriko" "Director." "Cinematographer." "Editor TSUDA Toyoshi" "Pillow resonates" "The tolling bell" "Just a dream" "Or is it real" "Reality just a dream" "Waking, tears..." "Ah, another nightmare?" "Seemed upsetting." "Be silent!" "Your awful song riled my drunken head." "Oh, is that so?" "Well, I've make it worse." "Waking, tears" "Upon my sleeve" "A passing rain..." "I'm going out to buy sake." "We have sake here." "An absent guard is useless." "I can't drink the cheap stuff here!" " Counting on you!" " Yes!" "Why the haste?" "The Shogun chose the Yagyu clan as Repair Magistrate... for the Toshogu Shrine in Nikko next year!" "Shogun's folly to choose that destitute, miserly bunch!" "Repair takes money?" "Of course!" "Impressive title, but bad luck in the end, a huge financial burden." "Must be tough for that clan." "Really tough." "Not easy being a samurai." "A samurai's lot in life!" "Incredible!" "Incredible!" "Where's Dainoshin?" "Where's Dainoshin?" "Old sage Ippu asked me to a private meeting this morning." "It seems unbelievable, but our Yagyu heirloom, the Kokezaru' jar, has hidden clues that lead to an ancestor s... secret war fund, a cache of one million ryo in gold!" "What a surprise!" "Aren't you surprised?" "Yes..." "What's wrong Dainoshin?" "Not elated?" "!" "We can easily meet our obligation to repair the Toshogu Shrine!" "My Lord, I dread to say..." "Why the long face?" "Your younger brother Genzaburo... married into the Shiba fencing dojo in Edo." "Wasn't the 'Kokezaru 'jar presented to him last month... in celebration of his marriage?" "!" "Huh?" "That's true!" "Curses!" "I totally forgot!" "What a mess!" "A real mess!" "A mess!" "If only that senile old sage had told me sooner!" "I could have given Genzaburo something else." "What trouble!" "Dainoshin, any good ideas?" "My dear Genzaburo," "I'm ashamed to have this dirty jar placed out front." "I see." "Even though they say it's a treasure of the Yagyu clan... it's just dirty, cheap junk." "Put it in the shed." "Fine by me." "Considering your brother is a feudal lord, isn't it disgraceful you get only this tea jar as a wedding gift?" "!" "My elder brother's not a bad man really, just a miser." "Years ago he loved a maid... who died during leave of absence." "Since then he refuses to marry." "Tough on his servants." "In any case it's not fair." "He has a fiefdom worth 23,000 koku of rice, but you get just one dirty jar!" "Hagino, don't talk like that." "You're making me discouraged." "Ahh..." "Born just one year after him, but everything becomes different." "It really is a dirty jar." "Even sounds bad." "Can't sell it for even one ryo." "This jar is worthless." "It really is." "Please excuse me." "A letter for Master Genzaburo." "From my elder brother." "Let's see..." "Enough of this ridicule!" "What is it dear Genzaburo?" "What did he write?" "He wants the jar back!" "My goodness!" "He worries I've damage that Yagyu treasure, so he've give a better gift in exchange for it." "He's such a rude brother!" "It's an eyesore." "Just sell off this jar!" "We are curio dealers!" "Get rid of old household goods, furniture..." "Clothing." "Clothing!" "We've take anything at all!" "Just call out to us!" "What the...!" "It fell off!" "Put it on, put it on!" "Look cute?" "Real cute!" "Real cute!" "Put it on, put it on!" "I've put it on." "In exchange for that jar I've get 100 ryo?" "Yes, the large sum of 100 ryo." "He really splurged!" "My noble Lord feels... that giving you the "Kokezaru' jar as a wedding gift... did not express the honor of the Yagyu clan." "It is my Lord's desire." "Thanks for your effort." "However, why does he inform me of this now?" "My Lord is truly thinking of Master Genzaburo." "Dainoshin, don't jest." "My miserly brother must covet even that dirty jar." "Or perhaps there is some scheme, Dainoshin?" "Nothing so absurd!" "Master Genzaburo, please accept gladly my Lord's kind offer." "I don't like this!" "That jar can't be worth 100 ryo!" "But that's not true." "That jar is a Yagyu treasure." "Something's strange." "You think my eyes are knotholes?" "No such thing..." "The jar... somehow." "I'm not saying I won't return it, but tell me what's going on." "Nothing's going on, it's simply a tea jar." "Fine." "Then I desire that dirty jar more than 100 ryo." "Tell my brother Genzaburo says thanks anyway." "I beg you Master Genzaburo!" "Oh, your expression changed." "So there is a scheme." "Tell me about it, no blame on you." "Please have a heart!" "Can t." "Tell me or I've sell that jar to a curio shop!" "Please stop!" "So talk." "Try telling me." "One million ryo!" "One million ryo!" "One million ryo!" "Hagino, celebrate!" "Hagino?" "Genzaburo my dear, what is it?" "It's not a matter of what." "Bring the jar!" "You're still thinking about that jar?" "Of course!" "I, though unworthy, entered into your family, and brought with me a worthy gift." "Really?" "I just sold that jar to a curio dealer." "What's that?" "You sold it?" "Yes, because you said to sell it." "I got ten mon for it!" "Ten mon?" "Idiot!" "It's worth one million ryo!" "One million ryo!" "G-o-o-ldfish!" "Goldfish!" "Thank you." "Here you are." "G-o-o-ldfish!" "G-o-o-ldfish!" "Thank you." "Here you are." "Had a busy day, didn't we Hachi?" "There!" "Hachi, help untie this." "Sazen, seems your special groans have started again." "Silence!" "No talking!" "You should just give up." "Not yet, let's keep on some more." "You said you were off work today." "Off work, but still lots of things to do." "I can't spend the whole day just playing shogi." "Aw, don't say that." "Looks like checkmate." " Wait!" " No waiting!" "Did you wash them, Hachi?" "What a pretty goldfish!" "Grandpa bought it for me!" "That's great, Yasubo!" "Hey, hey, be careful!" "I told you so!" "Hachi, Hachi!" "Jar, jar!" "Jar!" "Hey, Hachi, Jar!" "Quick!" "The goldfish will die!" "Put the goldfish in here!" "Thank you Auntie!" "Not your " Auntie'!" "Your big sister!" "Otokichi, got a minute?" "What is it, Yahei?" "Visitor?" "I've come back." "Don't worry, he's just about to leave." "Right?" "Is that so?" "Yahei runs the soba noodle stand on the corner." "Serves really great noodles!" "Go eat there sometime!" "That so?" "I've drop by soon." "I look forward to it." "What did you want?" "Stand's got a broken post, I thought you could fix it." "I see." "Leave it to me." "Go wait, I've be there soon." "Right." "Sazen, I've take this." "Oh, hello sir!" "Good afternoon!" "Oh, got a goldfish?" "New boy?" "Who is he?" "Yasubo, grandson of Yahei who has the noodle stand." "That so?" "Hey boy, you like your goldfish?" "I like it!" "Really?" "Well, be careful." "Watch too much, and like with me, it've grab your eye and 'crunch'!" "Gobble it up!" "Got mine still?" "Your eyes are still there!" "Sir, please don't scare children!" "Don't do that, sir!" "Really." "Let's see..." "Oh, an orange goldfish, so no problem." "One that got my eye was black, so don't worry." "Bulls-eye!" "Shichibe, you re really good!" "Ohisa, I can't miss with you beside me." "Shichibe, what about work?" "No problem!" "The shop staff can take care of it." "Instead, I haven't heard you sing for so long." "You've have to excuse me..." "Madam, please sing for us!" "I want to hear too, Madam!" "Please, Madam!" "Don't force her to sing if she doesn't want to!" "Her awful singing disturbs my sleep!" "Don't blame my singing." "Makes the sake taste bad!" "That's fine, we've owe less to the liquor shop." "Forget about singing!" "Well then, after all, I believe I will sing." "Slight sore throat though, so luckily his sake will taste even worse." "Do as you like!" "The pickling crock!" "I've cover it before your singing fouls it!" "Early summer rain" "Wild rice in the pond" "Under rising water" "Are those irises" "Or sweet flag?" "This surely leads..." "Master Genzaburo, no time for fun." "Let's search for curio dealers!" "I see." "That's true." "That's really true." "Master Genzaburo!" "Come, come." "Not so far to" "" The Water God"..." "Bulls-eye!" "Bulls-eye!" "Well done, sir!" "Why don't we have a contest?" "Interesting." "How much shall we wager?" "Wait, please don't wager." "The officials are so strict." "Well then, how about the loser pays the bill?" "That's fine." "I've go first." "Bulls-eye!" "Shichibe, you're amazing!" "Bulls-eye!" "Why no applause for me!" "Woman, come fill my glass." "Stop that!" "She's spirited!" "I like that." "Contest finished?" "Foolish talk!" "Hurry up!" "Bulls-eye!" "Bulls-eye!" "Bulls-eye!" "Curses!" "Arrow was warped!" "Samurai, don't try to blame the arrow." "What insolence!" "Please stop!" "Please stop!" "Sir, come here!" "Not done my sake." "What are you saying!" "Get to work!" "Huh?" "!" "What?" "!" "Hey, hey, hey!" "Bunch of thugs!" "Enough of that!" "You call the Shogun's men thugs?" "You can be a guard with a body like that?" "Why don't you find out?" "Interesting." "Impudent!" "Wait." "We were only jesting." "Hey, don't take it seriously!" "Right, now leave!" "Hold on, you two!" "You haven't paid yet." "Shichibe's bill is also owing." "You freak!" "We've take care of you and that thug!" "What's that, hoodlum!" "Enough of that." "Instead, escort Shichibe home." "Me?" "!" "Yes." "Who is there but you?" "I can't do it." "Got to get to sleep." "Your singing gave me a fever!" "Please escort him!" "Won't do it!" "My head is throbbing!" "Escort him!" "I won't do it!" "I won't do it!" "Absolutely won't do it!" "Aren't you a bit hungry?" "Let's have noodles." "Old man's soba is said to be good." "Good idea, and I've treat you." "Really?" "Thanks." " Was good." "It's there." " Thanks." "Sir, thank you for coming by so soon!" "Be seated!" "We were just passing by." "Two bowls." "Odd to ask a guest, but doesn't archery become tiresome?" "Only reason I work is to be able to enjoy archery!" "Really?" "It's so interesting?" "Of course!" "Here you are!" "Old man, it's good!" "Thanks." "Really!" "It's good." "Thanks, hope to see you again." "Sneak y hoodlums!" "Time for talk is past!" "Shichibe, run for it!" "But..." "It's fine, run now!" "You two, prepare to die!" "You would dare to kill us, the Shogun's men?" "So what!" "Shogun's men or not, all the same to me." "I cut down whoever I chose!" "But wait!" "With your skill you could be an officer." "I've introduce you." "Don't worry about my job!" "Worry about your life!" "We've be back!" "We've be back!" "Old man, try to hang on!" "Hey!" "It's me, open up!" "That door's closed." "Go around the side." "Fool!" "It's bad, open up!" "What is it?" "What's wrong?" "What on earth?" "!" "Look for yourself!" "He was stabbed." "Stabbed!" "But who is he?" "The old soba man." "Get sake or spirits quick!" "What about Shichibe?" "What?" "Shichibe's fine." "About Yasu..." "Yasu..." "Yasu?" "What's Yasu?" "Please care for..." "Yasubo..." "living in the run-down tenement... count on you." "Run-down tenement Yasubo?" "That boy?" "!" "Hey old man!" "Old man!" "Try to hang on!" "Old man!" "Counting on me?" "Hey, he counts on you for Yasu!" "What's this Yasu?" "Old man's grandson." "About this tall." "Not my problem." "He's counting on you, do something!" "Something?" "!" "Can't do anything myself!" "I dislike children!" "You know that!" "We can't just do nothing." "I absolutely won t look after him!" "Look at him, he can't die in peace till he knows." "Absurd talk!" "I definitely won't take in a child!" "Why does he always have to be so kind?" "That's how he ended up with that body..." "Dearest!" "Dearest!" "Dearest!" "Genzaburo dear, there's no time to be lazing around." "Please go look for that jar soon." "I'm still tired from searching yesterday." "Let me have a rest." "Please devote yourself to it." "Hagino," "until today I could spend my time just seeing your lovely face, so it's lonely to walk searching on my own for even one day." "It's also lonely for me to be left here at home." "But dear, it's worth one million ryo." "One million ryo!" "That's true." "One million ryo." "One million ryo." "No choice but to endure the loneliness." "But Hagino, this search is no simple matter." "Edo is so vast." "It's called ' The city of endless towns." "And in it an unlimited number of curio dealers." "Is that so?" "How long could it take?" "Well, one or two months is just not enough." "Dear, please devote yourself to it." "Find that jar as soon as possible." "It's like seeking revenge." "Perhaps it've take ten years, perhaps even twenty." "Yokichi, Edo is really vast." "It's better to split up and search." "Tell me what you find." "Understand?" "Let me know first if there's information about that jar." "A reward will be given when it's found." "Understood!" "But you know sir, Edo is really so vast." "It's called ' The city of endless towns." "Astounding number of curio dealers!" "It's almost like seeking revenge." "Perhaps it've take ten years, perhaps even twenty." "Welcome!" "Maybe I've try a little archery..." "Sir, didn't you pass by here yesterday?" "Yes." "You remember me?" "Yes." "Why did you remember?" "Why?" "Well..." "Can I tell you why?" "Yes." "Because you think I'm attractive?" "Well, certainly you are a handsome man." "So you think so?" "Right?" "Hey, Yasubo." "Oh, it's one-eyed Uncle!" "What you doing?" "Waiting for Grandpa." "Didn't come home yesterday." "Really?" "You don't have a mother and father?" "Died when I was little." "Really?" "How about brothers and sisters?" "Just Grandpa and me." "Well, I have something to tell you..." "What is it?" "Well, you know your..." "Well, your..." "You..." "Aren't you hungry?" "Hey..." "That boy doesn't have a mother or anyone, he's all alone." "Oh?" "How pitiful." "I suppose he must have cried?" "About what?" "When you said his Grandpa had died." " Oh, that..." " What's going on?" "I heard he was hungry." "He didn't eat since this morning." "And so?" "It's cruel to make a hungry child cry!" "That's true." "He was happy to hear there s lots of food at Auntie's place!" "What Auntie '?" "Obviously... there's only you." "Me!" "So?" "You told him you'd bring him home?" "Isn't he pitiful?" "Let's take him home and feed him." "You think I've let that dirty boy in my house?" "If you won't tell him I've go and make him cry!" "You think anybody will give him food?" "How is it Yasubo?" "Good?" "Yeah!" "He must have been starving..." "to say your food tastes good." "Thanks for the meal!" "What a smart boy." "You want some more?" "I'm stuffed!" "Oh, he fell asleep." "Now what?" "Tell him about old Yahei, then send him away." "What?" "You brought him in." "You tell him!" "You promised to tell him!" "I'm counting on you." "I've go check the shop." "Welcome!" "Ah, the Madam with the beautiful voice!" "You have skills too..." "So, Yasubo..." "Your goldfish is fine?" " Really small." " It's still a baby." "You want a bigger one?" "Little one's are cuter." "Yasubo..." "You're a boy, so you re tough, right?" "Yeah." "Tough... so you don't cry much, right?" "I haven't cried even once!" "Haven't cried even once?" "You're really tough!" "How about you?" "I've never cried either." "Because I'm a man." "You're tough too!" "Yeah." "Yasubo, you've really never cried even once?" "Yeah." "Well... just once." "I did cry one time." "Why was that?" "When did you cry?" "I cried when Grandma died." "Worried waiting" "Sleep, perhaps not" "Could be soon..." "Well, did he cry?" "Don't know!" "How pitiful." "You made him cry." "There was no choice, but it's sad." "That's true." "It is so pitiful, so he've stay here for a while." "What's that?" "Isn't that foolish?" "I told him it's fine, Auntie loves children." "What are you saying?" "Such rash decisions!" "How could I like that dirty boy!" "Oh?" "Sorry for telling him." "But, he's already been told!" "You should be sorry!" "He can't stay even one day." "I despise children!" "Send him away right now!" "My Lord!" "My Lord, a letter from Dainoshin in Edo!" "Oh!" "Hand it over!" "Found no clues yet..." "Dismissed." "Dearest Kaede, at last my destiny... draws near." "My dear Genzaburo, you haven t found even one clue yet?" "Almost one month I've searched Edo near and far, but no clues at all." "Dear, please try hard." "It's one million ryo." "One million ryo!" "Yokichi, you still haven't found even one clue?" "My legs are worn out from this daily search, it's not easy." "Yokichi, you try hard too." "Master Genzaburo, you seem so happy." "Ridiculous!" "I'm serious about it!" "I need that jar soon to outflank my brother!" "Your sake." "Thanks, Yasubo." "He's such a smart boy." "Madam has really come to adore him." "As if she's really his mother." "Hey Yasubo!" "Isn't Yasubo here?" "He's out in the back." "Oh, are those stilts?" "Otokichi the carpenter made them for me." "Never!" "He's not getting on stilts!" "Why not?" "I took the trouble of getting them." "What if he gets hurt?" "Other children ride them." "Yasubo is too refined for the games of these local urchins!" "Boys need physical training." "These days the mind needs training, not the body." "What!" "Hey, Yasubo!" "You want to ride the stilts or not?" "I want to ride!" "Good." "Good." "Really good!" "That man, he's the one that got the stilts." "I can't teach him with one arm." "You do it." "So irresponsible." "Actually, that jar..." "What!" "One million ryo!" "Well, we won't know for sure till we find it." "I see." "But with money talk and fights, the bigger the better." "Even if half true it's still half a million ryo." "Amazing!" "The day it's found I've demand a big share from my brother." "Good idea." "Oh yeah..." "I know a pair of curio dealers, Shigezo and Hachi." "I've tell you how to find the tenement they live in." "Much obliged!" "Uncle, buy me a goldfish!" "Mine died..." "It died?" "I've go fish a new one for you." "Fishing for goldfish?" "Sounds good." "I've go along." "In our tough times one million ryo makes a great story." "How much is one million ryo?" "Well, it's a lot." "I could buy all the goldfish in Edo and have money left over." "Oh, that is a lot!" "Yasubo, if I find that one million ryo, instead of a goldfish, I've buy you a carp this big!" "A goldfish is better." "A carp won't fit in the fishbowl!" "Really?" "A goldfish is better!" "Got one!" "Yasubo, got one!" "Uncle, it's so small." "Catch a black one too!" "Leave it to me!" "Graciously allow that soon the 'Kokezaru 'jar... be returned to my husband, Genzaburo." "Ohisa, give it a try." "No thanks." "Don't say that." "Here." "Ahh!" "Let's try again." "It's not easy!" "That's cold!" "That's cold!" "Pardon." "I'm looking for Shigezo the curio dealer." "Shigezo lives there." "He should be done work, and back home soon." "As I speak, there he is!" "Hey, this samurai wants to see you." "Huh?" "!" " Shigezo the curio dealer?" " Yes." "Well!" "So it was that jar." "Now I see." "So grateful..." "One million ryo!" "One million ryo." "One million ryo." "Well, I'll go looking for that jar again today." "In any case, Edo is vast." "At this rate perhaps ten years, perhaps even twenty." "Really like seeking revenge." "Dear." "What is it?" "Where did you spend your time yesterday?" "Where?" "I walked the endless towns of Edo searching for that jar." "Doing this daily has worn me out." "I'd like to spend today at home just seeing your lovely face." "Feel free to do so." "Huh?" "Not just today, but every day can be spent at home." "What's that!" "What about that one million ryo jar?" "!" "This dojo has many trainees." "It's fine if you don't personally search." "Hagino, what's wrong?" "I'm responsible for that jar." "As to how you can search every day and find no clue at all," "I understand at last." "You must be making some mistake." "Yokichi will say how earnestly I search every day for that jar." "Yokichi was let go this morning." "Huh?" "Dear..." "If you like fishing for goldfish, there are lots in the garden pond." " Dear!" " Yes." "From today, you will not set foot outside this estate." "What nonsense!" "We'll discuss it later." "I'm going now." "All right?" "Sir, we'll search for the 'Kokezaru' jar instead." "Please be at ease." "From now you'll refrain from leaving this estate freely." "As one we humbly request this!" "The truth is, Hagino..." "I believe absolutely nothing you say!" "Hagino, at least believe this!" "The truth is the 'Kokezaru' jar has been found." "Honestly!" "What's that?" "Aren't you surprised?" "Where is it?" "Please show me." "I'll show you!" "I'll bring it back tonight." "Really I'll bring it!" "Hagino, believe me!" "Let me go out once more, I beg you!" "Are you trying to deceive me again?" "Of course not!" "What I say is true!" "I swear on a myriad gods!" "Hagino, please believe me about this!" "No, I don't believe you." "Hagino, I beg you!" "Never!" "He didn't show up after all." "You mean that man?" "Yasubo, go to bed now." "Children can't stay up." "You're such a bad boy." "Welcome back." "Hey, Ofuji!" "Ofuji!" "There's something I want to discuss." "Yasu should train at a dojo from tomorrow." "What?" "I thought he should know about how to get revenge." "I'm against it." "Fencing is of no use." "You're a good example of that." "But fencing is the first step towards revenge." "Revenge is so old-fashioned." "Anyway, can't you teach him fencing?" "Fencing is a waste, he s going to elementary school." "Elementary school?" "Children now can't get by without education." "Revenge with brush and ink?" "Idiot!" "He's going to a dojo!" "Elementary school." "Ofuji, listen to me once in a while!" "Dojo from tomorrow!" "He's going to school!" "I say dojo, I mean dojo!" "Oh, you write so well!" "He's so talented." "Let's see it." "Good!" "Better than even Priest Kobo's famed brush." "I can count too!" "Really?" "Amazing." "Count to ten for me." "One, two, three, four, five, seven, nine, ten!" "Well... that's great." "Weak in math, like Uncle." "Anyway, Yasubo, isn't it time for school?" " Yeah." " You'll be late." "But Katsu from the money shop teases me." "Don't be so weak." "You just tease him right back!" "Uncle, you take me there." "Don't be silly, I'm too busy." "Auntie, you take me." "You can't stay here if you talk like that." "Get going!" "You off?" "See you later!" "You know, that boy might make him cry." "That Katsu is big." "If you're worried, go and see." "You go see!" "I won't go." "I'm busy with work!" "I still haven't eaten yet!" "Do as you want." "I'm not going!" "I'm not going either!" "Little-little-Yasu-Yasu." "Little Yasu!" "Run for it!" "Hagino, you really don't want one million ryo?" "When I know the jar is right under your nose!" "I beg you, let me go outside for even half a day." "Never." "You were let go by the Shiba dojo?" "Yes." "It resulted from just following Genzaburo's requests." "That's tough." "Any news about the jar?" "Nothing at all." "Really..." "I've got an idea." "Can you help me do it?" "' Yagyu Clan Buys Jars'" "One ryo!" "One ryo!" " They'll pay one ryo!" " So much!" "One ryo." "One ryo." "For one ryo!" "Sir..." "Do you happen to have a jar like this?" "Well, not unlike that, but it's quite dirty." "Dirty is fine!" "In fact, the dirtier the better!" "If you bring it here I'll pay you well for it." "How much?" "How's one ryo?" "One ryo for a jar?" "Sir..." "I will pay you... here and now!" "Fine." "I'll go get it." "Wait here." "Buy me a card to play menko!" "A menko card?" "Go buy one with this." "I'll play using this thing!" "Hah, a little coin?" "Just wait, I'll get one from home!" "Hey, some man will pay one ryo for even this jar." "Really?" "But Yasubo treasures it." "He'll miss it, won't he?" "That's true." "Actually, I already received the one ryo." "So go and give it back." "Well..." "I don't have it." "It's been spent already." "You re impossible!" "Can't you do things right?" "!" "It's my turn!" "Look how big mine is!" "Hey, can't sell the jar." "Here's your money back." "Sir, how about two ryo?" "Can't." "The boy keeps his goldfish in it." "You can buy a great fishbowl for two ryo!" "Oh, that's true..." "No!" "It can't be done!" "Just give up on it." "Don't say that!" "Couldn't I just look at it?" "Don't be so pushy!" "When I say no, I mean no!" "Auntie, I won this at menko with the coin Uncle gave me!" "Where did you get that?" "Won it playing menko with money shop Katsu!" "Really such a bad boy!" "Return it before the officials catch you!" "What's wrong?" "Impossible to imagine what a child will do!" "Thief!" "Thief!" "Stolen?" "!" "Madam, don't think I'm such a fool." "Using a child for fraud, that's really impressive!" "What?" "What's that about fraud!" "What wrong?" "Fraud is fraud!" "We'll pay it back." "Will that end your complaint?" "Obviously." "Please return the full amount of sixty ryo." "Understood." "We will pay it." "Come for it tomorrow evening." "You say that but plan to escape?" "Please return it right now." "Didn't I just ask you to wait till tomorrow evening!" "No, I won't wait!" "What's that?" "What's that?" "You, stop that." "Sir, truly it was stolen as the boy was on his way to return it." "It is not a lie." "Won't you trust us as neighbors to repay it by tomorrow evening?" "I will receive it without fail by tomorrow evening." "Samurai don't lie!" "Did Katsu's father leave?" "Go out back and grill your rice cake." "It's mean to want it back after I won it, isn't it Auntie?" "Go eat your rice cake!" "Are you all right, making such a promise?" "What?" "What!" "You can get that money by tomorrow evening?" "Absurd!" "I live as a dependant on you." "Try to imagine a dependant like me getting sixty ryo!" "So what will you do?" "What will you do?" "I can't stand this!" "If he'd gone to a dojo like I said, none of this trouble would have happened." "It's all your fault!" "You shouldn't have given him that coin." "It's your fault!" "The way you looked after him was no good!" "It's your fault!" " It's you!" " It's you!" "It was stolen when you sent that little boy to return it." "So it's your fault!" "Isn't that so?" "You were wrong to bring that boy here!" "Without him there d be no trouble, no blame." "Who brought him here?" "You did!" "So it's your fault!" "Yasubo, isn't your rice cake burning?" "I can smell it." "Yasubo?" "He's not there?" "That's odd." "Yasubo, what's wrong?" "'Uncle, Auntie, don't fight." "Bye." "Yasu'" "What's wrong?" "Look at this!" "You should go that way!" "You go that way!" "So you go that way!" "Hey, Yasubo!" "Where have you been?" "Foolish boy!" "Such a foolish boy." "You don't need to worry." "Right?" "We aren't mad at you at all." "Don't worry." "Uncle can quickly earn fifty or sixty ryo tonight!" "Yasubo, you coming with me?" "Good." "Get Uncle to treat you to soba on the way home." "Wait, do you have any money to get started?" "Right." "I can't begin with no money at all." "Go pawn two or three of your kimonos." "Four and three, odd." "Let's begin." "Toss." "Four and three." "Cover." "Dice are cast." "Place your bets." "Ready." "Either odd or even." "Even!" "All ready." "Two and five, odd." "You groan when you lose!" "I won't lose next time." "Let's begin." "Toss." "Two and five." "Cover." "Dice are cast." "Place your bets." "Ready." "Either odd or even." "Even!" "All ready." "Four and one, odd." "You groaned again!" "Uncle, you groaned a lot." "Today's not my lucky day." "Oh, groaned again!" "What's wrong?" "Yasubo, close your eyes for a little while." "Why?" "Just close them and count to ten." "You must not open your eyes." "One, two," "three," "nine, ten!" "Yasubo, you counted to ten." "That's great!" "Let's go." "Why is that man groaning?" "I guess he lost a bet too." "So, let's go eat soba." "Intruder!" "Intruder!" "Show yourself!" "Everyone, an intruder's here!" "Hey, shhh!" "It's me, it's me!" "You thief!" "Stop there!" "Get down!" "Ouch!" "Hey, it's me!" "Auntie, you know?" "This jar can be sold for one ryo!" "Yes, I heard that." "Let's sell it!" "One ryo isn't much use." "It's better than nothing!" "That's true." "Hey, I'm going out!" "Where are you going?" "I'll go around some dojo to make money." "Will you be all right?" "Don't be foolish!" "I couldn't lose to those dojo men if I closed both eyes!" "I'm counting on you!" "Leave it to me." "Next!" "Who's up next?" "Isn't there anybody with more skill?" "I am so ashamed that I am beyond tears." "Genzaburo dear, aren't you head of this dojo at all?" "You sneak out of the estate at night, mistaken for a thief, and get beaten by the trainees." "I just wasn't prepared for them." "Even if unprepared, I still think it's disgraceful." "There were rumors in the garden." "What was said?" "They doubt you've mastered 'Shinkage' style swordplay." "What?" "!" "Such insolence!" "Inexcusable." "Pardon, a report!" "A freakish thing is causing a dojo rampage!" "Dojo rampage?" "The head!" "Send out the head of this dojo!" "Send him out now!" "Dear, this seems a perfect chance to show the trainees your skill." "Please go quickly and punish that hooligan." "Nothing I'd rather do, but my head is throbbing." "Pardon, a report." "What is it?" "Morimoto has just been defeated." "What!" "Morimoto defeated?" "Then send Nagai!" "Nagai was the first to confront him and be defeated." "Oh, my head hurts!" "Dear, please change quickly." "Oh no!" "Now my side begins to hurt." "Is the pain severe?" "Oh yes, such pain!" "Shall I report the head is ill, so the contest must be delayed?" "Good idea!" "Do so." "But will he leave quietly?" "Pass him one or two ryo, and he'll be happy to leave." "Please do so!" "I beg you to please wait a little longer." "You think one or two ryo will make me leave!" "Send out the dojo head!" "The head!" "It will offend our ancestors if that hooligan leaves in this way." "That's true." "Please go quickly and show the trainees your true skill." "'Shiba Dojo'" "The head!" "The head!" "Our head will soon engage you in person." "Finally appears!" "Who is he?" "To all present!" "Watch carefully the secrets of 'Shinkage'!" "Ronin samurai!" "The rude, foul words you spoke are inexcusable!" "Although ill, as head of this dojo," "I, Yagyu Genzaburo, must teach you a lesson." "Approach!" "Come, or I will act!" "Please let me defeat you!" "What'll you pay?" "How much you want?" "Sixty ryo." "That's a bit much!" "Not one mon less." "I have reasons." "It's a deal!" "Sixty ryo, and I defeat you." "Much obliged." "I'm defeated!" "I'm defeated!" "Your skill overwhelms me, I cannot possibly match you!" "Outrageous to violate this dojo with such lack of skill!" "You re a fool not to know your place!" "Yes!" "Trainees!" "Your skill can't match that of even this foe!" "What do you do every day in the dojo?" "!" "From tomorrow real training begins!" "You, ronin samurai..." "It's regrettable a man with your skills and tactics is a ronin." "I'll personally teach you something." "Proceed to the rear." "Yes!" "I never expected this would be your dojo." "I never dreamed you'd rampage in my dojo!" "Well, I gladly accept this." "So, drop by sometime." "Let's catch goldfish again." "Sounds good." "Oh, I remember!" "That goldfish!" "It's in that jar!" "What about the jar?" "It's the one million ryo jar!" "The 'Kokezaru 'jar!" "What!" "That jar's worth one million ryo!" "Definitely the one!" "To begin, perhaps two or three years training at this dojo..." "I'll train you hard." "Your skill is wasted." "Welcome back." "You're early." "How did it go?" "My, you got this much!" "Hey, where's that jar?" "That jar?" "Idiot!" "Yasubo's goldfish jar!" "He wants to help Uncle with even one ryo, so just went to sell it." "What!" "It's him!" "He killed Suzukawa!" "Hey, freak!" "We've got a score to settle." "No time, come back later." "Or I'll cut you down now!" "Interesting, rather vigorous considering your body." "Watch out, he can use that sword!" "There's no choice." "I'll go ahead." "Swine!" "You won't beat me!" "Get in line, get in line." "One row." "Line up." "Hachi, give me a push!" "What you doing!" "Just push!" "Look!" "Is the flower open?" "It's open, it's open." "Cute!" "Now push, push!" "Help me!" "It's heavy!" "Enough games." "Keep out of it!" "You, what is your name?" "Surname Tange, first name Sazen." "I am Tange Sazen!" "Hey, where you going?" "Where you going?" "You!" "Stop!" "Oh!" "Uncle!" "So, what'll you do with this jar?" "I'll return it to my brother, but if they know I've got it I can't go out any more." "I'll keep quiet for now." "Could you look after it for a little while?" "No problem." "Uncle, I can see the goldfish better in this one." "Thanks!" "Yasubo, can I look at that amulet pouch?" "Here you are." "Yasubo, where did you get this?" "I've had it since I was born." "What did you say?" "!" "I said I didn't want to take in a child!" "Don't say that." "Isn't it good?" "His real family has been found." "A lord with 23,000 koku is well-off." "Yasubo will be happier growing up there." "I don't like it!" "Can one amulet pouch really prove who's son he is?" "Why was the son of a Yagyu lord living in a tenement?" "When Lord Yagyu was resident in Edo, he was in love with a maid in attendance at his villa." "Due to difference in status she was forced to leave." "That maid was carrying Yasubo, but died soon after his birth." "So, Lord Yagyu didn't want the boy." "Lord Yagyu didn't know." "When he found out, he had a secret search made for the child." "Samurai just take what they want!" "Ofuji..." "I didn't want that boy to become a samurai." "I won't see him off!" "Don't say that." "Absolutely won't see him off!" "I want to stay here." "I want to live with Uncle and Auntie." "Don't ask for something that cannot be." "Where's Uncle?" "I don't know where he could be." "He was just here." "Young Master, we must be going." "Please come." "You miss him?" "Perhaps I did something wrong." "Nonsense!" "Just one boy... more or less..." "Reminds me of 'Even in the ogre's eye, a tear. '" "Uncle!" "Uncle!" "Young Master!" "Little fool!" "Uncle!" "Yasubo!" "Yasu!" "Uncle!" "The jar!" "One million ryo!" "The jar!" "Hit the jackpot!" "You, get to work!" "What!" "What!" "Now what!" "'Kokezaru' jar" "Lies shattered" "Broken like a dream" "Remaining" "Remaining thoughts" "Varied each to each" "The shamisen string" "Will break" "But their bond" "Broken" "Never broken" "A bond so deep" "Tange Sazen" "Sake, sword" "Obstinate" "Passionately" "Passionately kind" "A splendid man." "Translation by Paul BRYDEN"