田 Chiritotechin
 田 Week 2: "You reap what you mackerel" Episode 8
Teach me how to play the shamisen.
I'm going to do a live shamisen concert at the school festival.
You're not the type to go up on a stage in front of
people, and play an instrument.
You don't have to be so negative about it.
When you were in kindergarten, you caught your fingers
between the castanets and started crying, and you
ruined the whole recital.
Did you do that?
Take my advice... Forget about it.
Why are you against it without even hearing my side of it?
It's for your sake.
You're always opposed to what I do.
Was that when you were in the fifth grade...?
You just couldn't get the lingering right for
"chiritotechin" that we use as a basic exercise...
But now you're saying that you're going to play the
shamisen for the school festival.
No matter what Itoko says, I'll teach you.
Thank you, Grandma.
Go ahead and ignore me.
Stop imitating Kojiro.
I don't talk like that.
It's exactly like you.
Thank you, Grandma.
We'll start practicing from tomorrow.
Actually, there's someone else who wants to learn to play, also...
I'm Wada Kiyomi.
Thank you for agreeing to teach me to play the shamisen.
I've been by to visit once in a while, but
I've never properly introduced myself...
And I heard that my father was indebted to your late husband...
Thank you very much.
You're very well-mannered I like you.
Just a minute...
I'll get you a shamisen to practice with.
I'll be right back.
Grandma...?
Is it really okay?
What?
But A-ko's father is...
It has nothing to do with her.
Get ready...
A-ko?
Hold the neck up a little more like this...
Let's start with the first string.
Don't play it through... You have to stop right there.
Try it again.
Stop it right here.
Kiyomi... Show her how to do it.
Show her how? Me?
Please...
Don't put the angle of your pick like this...
Angle it this way.
That's it!
Okay, now keep going.
I'm teaching A-ko.
I'm better than A-ko.
This was the first time in nine years that this has ever happened.
So what are you going to play?
I haven't decided yet.
Maybe you should do Chage and Aska's "Say Yes."
How about the Bubblegum Brother's, "Won't Be Long"?
You're so trendy.
Forget it. If you play, "Won't Be Long" on stage,
I'll never be able to show my face at school again.
I won't do it.
How about Taki Rentaro s "Kojo no Tsuki"
(Moonlit Castle Ruins)? That's a famous song.
You have the taste of an old man.
How about "The Girl From Ipanema" or "California Girls"?
All you ever think about is everlasting summer.
Do "Furusato."
Itsuki Hiroshi's "Furusato." That's what you should play.
Why are you so set on that?
I don't want to do an "enka" (traditional ballad) song.
Then what are you going to play?
What kind of song do you want to play?
Let's see...
See? You're always like that.
You're the one who said you wanted to play the
shamisen at the school festival, and yet you
don't even know what you want to play.
It made me mad that she was so close to the truth.
That's why I decided for you.
Itsuki Hiroshi's "Furusato" is such a great song.
Everyone has a hometown, a place to come home to.
He's just stating the obvious.
That's why it really hits deep down in your heart.
You don't have to pretend... If it's too much for you,
just come back home.
In other words, it's a supportive song for those
who are leaving home and those who are way from home.
You're going to open your store pretty soon, aren't you, Dad?
I hope you get a lot of customers.
If a lot of customers came, I'd be thrown for a loop.
Just imagine if a television station came by...
You finally opened.
Mrs. Sakanaya Shokudo (Fish Diner)... Welcome!
It's a very nice store.
Thank you.
You've polished the glass cases until they shine!
Goodbye.
Welcome!
I've daydreamed about what I'd be like in the future.
The ultimate image of myself was standing
right in front of me.
Is this a lacquered chopsticks store?
It's not written here in my material...
We just opened today.
Is that right?
Is this your family's store?
So you're a high school student...
Wada Lacquered Chopsticks?
Thank you.
B-ko!
B-ko!
That was wonderful!
Please come to the Kansai Music College.
Kiyomi! What are you grinning about?
I'm sorry.
Shall we try. "chi-ri-to-te-chin" as a finger exercise?
That's right... The exercise that frustrated you before.
Is it that hard?
Don't worry. You can do it if you practice.
We're going to pick out the chords for "chi-ri-to-te-chin."
When playing the shamisen, you hum a shamisen tune...
For instance, "chin-ton-shan" or "ton-ten-shan."
There's a musical note that goes with the tune you hum.
For example, when you pick the third string on the
shamisen it would be "ten" or "te." The second string
would be "ton" or "to." And so on...
You practiced hard, didn't you?
Thank you.
After three days, I was finally able to play.
"chi-ri-to-te-chin."
However...
A-ko? Please show Kiyomi how to play that...
You need to raise your pick a little higher...
The three days I fell behind, turned into a week, then
ten days until I felt as though I would never be able to catch up.
While I was feeling blue, the enemy staged another attack...
Mom... You have a visitor.
A visitor?
Please come in.
Mom?
Mom...?
I'm Kiyomi's mother.
Thank you for teaching my daughter...
How nice of you.
This is just something small for you...
You really didn't have to...
But letting her use such an expensive shamisen...
"Decchi yokan" (jellied bean paste)!
Itoko!
Did you make this yourself?
Will you show me how to make this?
What bad manners, Itoko.
I'm sorry.
Would you be kind enough to show me how to make this?
It reminded me of the saying, "Like mother, like daughter."
Hey!
This guy was always showing up out of the blue, and
always addressing me as "Hey!".
A-ko's brother.
What are you doing?
I'm just taking a walk.
I'll give you a ride.
No, thanks.
I can get out of the car then...
There's no need.
Then how are we going to talk?
You don't have to talk to me.
Why are you so shy?
Just get in!
What are you going to do?
About what?
After you get out of high school.
I haven't decided yet.
You should at least finish junior college...
That way, you'll be graduating just about the time when
I finish college... It would be just right.
What would be just right?
Marriage, of course!
Who's getting married?
You and me, of course.
Why?
How else would a pug-nosed, dumb girl with no redeeming
qualities like you live anyway?
I'm going to be a prominent person in this town, so
I thought I'd be benevolent an make you my wife.
Now do you understand?
I understood!
What's why I was trying...
But no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't
catch up to A-ko.
I gradually stopped practicing.