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"Little Forest" is divided into 4 parts - Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring. After the end credits of "Winter", "Spring" follows. Please enjoy the continuity of the movies.

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You've got mail!

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Coming!

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Good morning.

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It sure's chilly.

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Yeah, it's getting cold.

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I heard that it'll snow sometime at noon.

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Oh.

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It's all bills again?

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There's one letter there.

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Oh.

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See you then.

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A letter from Mom came during autumn.

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Komori (Little Forest) is a small settlement in a village somewhere in the Tohoku region.

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There aren't any stores here,

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 but if you have a little shopping to do, there's a small farmer's co-op supermarket

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and some other stores in the the village center, where the town hall is.

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The way there is mostly downhill, so that takes about 30 minutes,

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but I'm not too sure how long the trip back takes.

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During winter, you have to go on foot because of the snow,

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so that'll take you something like a good hour and a half.

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But it seems that most people

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do their shopping at places like the big suburban supermarket in a neighboring city.

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When I decide to go there, it nearly ends up taking the whole day.

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Oopsie.

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Today is Christmas.

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Speaking of Christmas, because my mother makes a fuss over details,

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so we never celebrated it once.

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Mommy, let's celebrate Christmas!

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We are not Christians so what for?

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How selfish!

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Selfish! Selfish! Selfish!

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But nevertheless, when I was small,

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we would always have guests around this season.

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And she would make cake.

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Coming!

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Hi.

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Hello.

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Come in.

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Why, hello there!

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Where are your manners?

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He used to take care of me a long time ago.

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Hello.

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He was a foreigner.

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Now that I think about it, he might have been my mother's old lover.

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Though I don't have any basis.

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You're really good at drawing.

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What's this suppose to be?

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Green peas!

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Here's the cake!

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My mother's Christmas cake was a rectangular loaf, white with fresh cream on the outside.

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 Once she cut it with the knife, the slice would reveal the brilliant red and green Christmas colors.

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It's very pretty. How did you make it?

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How do you make it? It's amazing!

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Want to know?

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The red is amazake made from red rice.

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The green is spinach.

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I put the two types of dough into one mold and baked them.

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 But I don't understand how it ends up as two colors lengthwise. If you just put in the dough like that, it's impossible.

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You'll have to figure that one out by yourself.

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You okay?

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There was one left.

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That man came to our house around three times,

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but that was it.

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I see.

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And that also marked the end of that Christmas cake.

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I've had it before.

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What?

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Back in middle school.

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I don't remember.

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I think it was around a year before Ma'am Fukuko left.

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She had me sample the taste.

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I didn't know that.

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I used to borrow books from her all the time. You used to have a whole bunch of them, right?

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Like collections of complete works and encyclopedias.

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Oh yeah, you did come over all the time.

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Well, she praised you a lot.

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Even though I'm not particularly fond of books, I began to try to read them anyways. 

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That's when she suddenly said to me...

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Go and find your own books to read if you're going to read for yourself.

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What?

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Or something like that. She then sold them to the second-hand book store.

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We probably didn't have money left.

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I helped carry the books so she gave me a couple of them.

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I see. The fact that she made a cake may have meant that she had a man around then too.

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So, what about the cake?

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Oh yeah. We haven't grown red rice for the longest time, right?

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Though the ears of the red rice plants are red and make the fields look pretty,

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the seeds actually spill out easily and it's a pain to harvest.

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That's when I thought that I could just use black rice.

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We grow black rice every year.

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So I made amazake with black rice.

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I used slightly less water and it ended up fairly strong.

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Black rice is of the glutinous variety, so it comes out quite sweet.

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The amazake was completely black,

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but when mixed with sugar, baking soda, wheat flour,

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baking soda and oil into a doughly mixture, it ended up a purple color that was just right.

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Yellow goes well with purple, so I made yellow colored dough out of boild pumpkin as well.

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I filled the mold with the dough made out fo the black rice, up to a little less than half.

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Then on top of that, I poured the pumpkin dough till the entire thing was about eight tenths of the mold's height.

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Then, I baked it in the oven.

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After baking, I immediately put the side that was bulging out on the bottom and cooled it down.

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Doing that would level out the sides.

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And by doing so, you get the colors of the dough to be lengthwise.

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Then I decorate it with fresh cream.

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Merry Christmas!

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I see.

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- Sorry, I'm late!
- Hey!

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Let's get started with the Christmas tea party!

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- No. This is a tea party for the year's end.
- Huh?

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This is a three color cake made of purple, yellow and white. Those are not Christmas colors.

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Besides, you guys aren't Christians either, right?

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Why are you being so fussy?

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Come on. Let's just eat.

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Well then. For the coming year...

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Let's hope for the best.

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- Let's eat!
- Digging in!

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Oh! It's delicious.

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- It's good!
- Delicious.

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- Pumpkins?
- Yup.

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Hello!

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I'm here for the neighborhood notice.

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Ah! Ichiko! Thanks for coming all the way.

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What are you drawing?

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Mushrooms.

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I've made some manjuu. Have some.

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Thank you.

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What's your favourite meal, Ichiko?

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When I was asked this...

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The first thing that popped into my head was natto mochi made with freshly pounded mochi.

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Mixing the natto with sugar,

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you take some piping hot mochi and tear pieces off into natto.

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We had a mochi making day at my school.

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It was 16 years ago.

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All the moms were running back and forth all over the place.

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We worked on digging up the natto.

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We buried them under the snow.

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Wow! It's done!

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It takes three days to make natto.

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You wrap soy beans that have been boiled soft in "warazuto" (cylindrical container weaved from straw).

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If you stick a piece of straw inside at this stage, you'll get a lot of strings.

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Wrap it in a straw mat,

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dig a hole in the snow.

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Then on the top of a straw blanket,

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comes a snow blanket.

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There are all sorts of things buried under the snow.

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Cabbage. Green onion. Spinach.

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Daikon and carrots are in holes in the ground.

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They are wrapped in cedar leaves to keep the mice away.

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When vegetables face low temperatures, they get injured and go bad.

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So it's best to preserve them using a blanket of snow.

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It stabilizes the temperature if you bury them.

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You also use that when making natto.

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We pray it would turn out tasty.

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We pray it would turn out tasty.

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You gotta flip it over right,

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or you don't get good tasting mochi.

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It's heavy. Can you carry it?

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Go on and carry it!

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Go, go, go.

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Whoopsie!

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Okay, stir it up for me.

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Be sure to not stick the mochi.

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Okay, see how it tastes.

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Really?

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It tastes good when it's nice and warm.

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Here. Go on.

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Freshly made, still warm,

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and very soft mochi.

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Natto chock-full of sugar and soy sauce.

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I pop them into my mouth one after another.

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I want to keep eating them forever and ever.

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It was the first natto mochi with sugar and soy sauce that I ever ate.

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It's important to knead it before pounding.

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Before my mom started living in Komori, I had never eaten natto mochi.

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So there wasn't really a particular flavour I could call our "family recipe".

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- I want to do it by myself.
- Are you sure?

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But since then...

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Don't hit me.

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freshly-pounded natto mochi with lots of sugar and soy sauce became our recipe.

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The bacteria that makes natto is on the rice straw.

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So rice cultivation is itself ""natto mochi" cultivation.

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It's ten minutes by bike to get to the paddy field we're renting.

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This year we had rain and lower temperatures.

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I used to worry and go out to the plants everyday.

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Rice plants grow from the sound of people's footsteps.

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The whole village sure was frantic during the threshing, working during lulls in the cold rain.

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And the product of this year's mochi-rice cultivation is..

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this...

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this...

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this!

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Time to eat.

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The local school has already closed down. Sometimes, it's used by the people in the village.

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Snow is falling on Komori.

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I have to maintain the path leading away from the roads the snowplows clear.

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You've got mail!

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Coming!

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- Good morning.
- Here.

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Oh, you've made some frozen daikon.

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- Yup. It's just like you said.
- I see.

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I split them into two.

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I peeled off the skin.

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I cut them vertically.

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Making holes,

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I pass a string through it.

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While they're raw, I let them freeze from the cold outdoors.

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When you let them dry out like that, you get frozen daikon that'll last for the entire year.

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It's find to just hang them up raw, right?

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Folks 'round here let 'em freeze after boiling 'em.

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My wife's family does it the same way you've got it goin'.

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It's plenty tasty fro what it's worth when you don't get much time to spend on it.

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- I'll be leaving then.
- Okay.

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Bye!

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Frozen daikon is indispensable for nishime.

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When you cook it together with dried herrings

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that have been reconstituted with water left over from washing rice,

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it soaks up all the flavour and is really delicious.

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I just cook them by adding whatever vegetables are in season.

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But they go well with mountain ginseng and nemagari bamboo.

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As the daikon is set to freeze , we become anxious in our wait for spring.

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Digging in.

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In autumn, while the permissons are still hard, they're harvested, brand and all, for making dried persimmons.

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There!

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This is hard.

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Sure was a big harvest this year.

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Yup, we got a whole bunch.

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We picked too many.

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We sure did.

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Here goes.

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One, two!

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- Have you hanged it?
 - I'll let go.

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Wow. They have great color.

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The skin that's left on the stem gets peeled.

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The branches that are T-shaped are inserted into rope and hung up under the overhangs of roofs.

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If they get squeezed by hand every once in a while, they'll end up as soft dried persimmons.

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They can be enjoyed with tea as they are,

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or cut them into thin slices and put into some daikon namasu.

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It has a beautiful color, where the vinegar's sweetness and the dried persimmons compliment each other and  it's delicious.

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- Here you go and have some.
- Whoa!

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- Don't mind if I do.
- Go on and eat.

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- Oh. It's delicious.
- Good.

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It's hard when it gets too cold, but  there are also things that you just can't get done if it doesn't get cold either.

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Yeah.

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"The cold" is also an important seasoning.

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Don't you have to clean the chimneys at your place?

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- We've got a fan heater at our house.
- That's nice.

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How about you replace this too?

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Hmm... But kerosene is ridicously expensive.

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00:25:41,570 --> 00:25:43,760
That's true.

252
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,540
- Remember when I left?
- Yeah?

253
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:55,810
I took rice and miso with me. But I had to buy vegetables, right?

254
00:25:55,920 --> 00:26:00,050
Oh, the air intake is much better now. Great, bring over the sweet potatoes please.

255
00:26:00,090 --> 00:26:01,310
Gotcha.

256
00:26:01,420 --> 00:26:05,320
And there were fees for water and sewage too.

257
00:26:05,430 --> 00:26:09,950
We don't have that in Komori, huh? Everyone takes care of that by themselves.

258
00:26:11,230 --> 00:26:15,170
When the bills came I panicked. I hadn't included them in my calculations.

259
00:26:15,270 --> 00:26:17,790
I had to try to save money.

260
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:32,810
In the beginning, I was only eating instant ramen and rice everyday.

261
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:35,980
I thought it was fine cause they had meat and vegetable extract in them.

262
00:26:36,090 --> 00:26:38,110
That's awful!

263
00:26:38,330 --> 00:26:41,230
Then, I wondered if I'd be able to grow some vegetables or something.

264
00:26:41,330 --> 00:26:44,020
I filled the bowls from the ramen up with dirt.

265
00:26:44,130 --> 00:26:49,260
I tried planting some radish seeds. At least they only take a month to grow after all.

266
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:29,980
Welcome!

267
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,410
There was this guy I got along pretty well at my part time job.

268
00:27:40,390 --> 00:27:44,480
- Huh? What are you looking for?
- Somebody asked me where the canned tomatoes were.

269
00:27:44,590 --> 00:27:48,530
Oh, those are in the spaghetti corner. Over here.

270
00:27:52,730 --> 00:27:53,760
Here.

271
00:27:53,870 --> 00:27:57,030
Wow. You sure know where things are.

272
00:28:01,940 --> 00:28:05,570
- Oh, thanks for earlier.
- Nah. It was nothing.

273
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:08,240
- I'll go on ahead then.
- Bye!

274
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:14,280
He's really thin.

275
00:28:15,620 --> 00:28:17,450
- Here.
 - Okay.

276
00:28:19,630 --> 00:28:22,220
Ah, this is a bit heavy.

277
00:28:22,330 --> 00:28:24,690
Huh? It's not heavy at all.

278
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:26,600
- You're just super strong.
- Hey.

279
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:30,500
- Here goes.
 Got it.

280
00:28:32,370 --> 00:28:35,710
Huh? Is that what you always eat for lunch? Just a sweetened bun?

281
00:28:35,810 --> 00:28:38,840
I make sure I take some vitamin supplements.

282
00:28:43,820 --> 00:28:46,790
But still, I think that's just not enough...

283
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:52,860
But then again, I'm not much different.

284
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,300
Wit the rice at home.

285
00:29:07,610 --> 00:29:08,730
Oh.

286
00:29:10,510 --> 00:29:13,270
I made some grilled onigiri with miso.

287
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,980
Adding some improvised pickled radishes.

288
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:28,160
And my mother's deluxe rolled omelette.

289
00:30:06,830 --> 00:30:08,800
This omelette is awesome!

290
00:30:08,900 --> 00:30:11,030
The secret is honey.

291
00:30:11,140 --> 00:30:16,630
Wow. You made this all from stuff you grew? You sure know a lot.

292
00:30:16,740 --> 00:30:20,040
No, not at all. I didn't grew the eggs.

293
00:30:33,090 --> 00:30:35,460
Or so I thought...

294
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,220
What's taking him so long?

295
00:30:49,110 --> 00:30:52,770
The other day, I received a hand-knit scarf.

296
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:58,180
Whoa! You know what that means! If you cheat on her, she'll kill you!

297
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:01,250
Scary! Wouldn't it be bettter to just throw it way?

298
00:31:01,350 --> 00:31:05,690
I said that you can always buy some gift. If she got time to make one, just get a job!

299
00:31:05,790 --> 00:31:07,820
You can say that again.

300
00:31:07,930 --> 00:31:11,020
Then what? You didn't give him the lunch you made because of that?

301
00:31:11,130 --> 00:31:12,430
Yeah.

302
00:31:14,100 --> 00:31:18,700
Sure, there are people like that. But food's got nothing to do with it.

303
00:31:18,810 --> 00:31:21,040
I know but...

304
00:31:21,140 --> 00:31:26,370
Remember when I entered middle school? I got bullied by the kids from the main school.

305
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,240
They said I was a wild monkey from the branch school.

306
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:32,420
They said I was just an idiot from the same village.

307
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:36,160
It felt like it did back then.

308
00:31:36,260 --> 00:31:39,620
In the end, I  couldn't take another step forward.

309
00:31:39,730 --> 00:31:41,630
Doesn't it smell good?

310
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,060
It probably has gotten all nice and soft.

311
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:48,130
- Ouch!
- Wanna use a mitt?

312
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:50,270
Whoops.

313
00:31:50,370 --> 00:31:54,070
Oh. You put heat resistant bricks on top of the stove.

314
00:31:54,170 --> 00:31:56,440
The heat radiating from it gradually warms them up.

315
00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:59,310
If you put a pot on top of it,

316
00:31:59,310 --> 00:32:02,010
you can reheat curry roux, and it won't burn even if you leave it alone..

317
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:05,080
Wow! That's so useful.

318
00:32:05,180 --> 00:32:07,550
And that goes also with these sweet potatoes.

319
00:32:12,090 --> 00:32:15,060
That satsumaimo from this year kept really well.

320
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,860
Well, it didn't get all that cold either.

321
00:32:20,470 --> 00:32:22,630
Yum.

322
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:26,000
Hot, hot, hot.

323
00:32:57,740 --> 00:33:01,500
I'm going to make sure to build a woodshed this year.

324
00:33:02,010 --> 00:33:05,210
Cutting frozen timber sure is tough.

325
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:14,880
I use sweets to relieve stress.

326
00:33:19,590 --> 00:33:22,930
That's why red beans are indispensable during the cold season.

327
00:33:23,030 --> 00:33:26,230
They go well mixed with mochi and hatto too.

328
00:33:26,770 --> 00:33:30,700
I knead wheat flour, salt and baking powder with water.

329
00:33:39,510 --> 00:33:42,040
I let them ferment for an hour.

330
00:34:00,700 --> 00:34:03,290
I then pack the red beans inside.

331
00:34:12,910 --> 00:34:16,440
I sear them in a frying pan to get something like oyaki.

332
00:34:25,060 --> 00:34:27,490
If I steam them, then I get manjuu.

333
00:34:40,270 --> 00:34:44,400
With our soil, there's no need for fertilize in our read bean fields.

334
00:34:44,510 --> 00:34:47,880
If I use it, then the leaves will grow thick and there will be no beans.

335
00:34:48,350 --> 00:34:52,480
When it's the beginning of summer, I plant them directly into the dirt.

336
00:34:52,590 --> 00:34:55,380
Then I completely abandon them when all it does is rain.

337
00:34:56,860 --> 00:34:58,450
Summer.

338
00:34:58,690 --> 00:35:02,960
The flowers bloom from the bottom. Falling.

339
00:35:04,530 --> 00:35:06,660
When it's autumn,

340
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:15,140
I won't be able to help myself and end up eating these immature red beans.

341
00:35:15,240 --> 00:35:17,330
When I open the pods that are still green,

342
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:22,570
the faces of these fresh, orchid-colored, young red beans peek out.

343
00:35:22,780 --> 00:35:28,850
They haven't gotten hard yet. It makes me happy that I can just boil them quickly and eat them whenever I want.

344
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,520
Nevertheless, they still have that faint fragrance of red beans.

345
00:35:36,230 --> 00:35:39,030
You can use them as ingredients in soups as well.

346
00:35:43,340 --> 00:35:49,000
I boil these slightly sweet red beans and blend them into a muffin batter and bake them.

347
00:35:49,980 --> 00:35:53,240
They're fluffy and aromatic.

348
00:35:56,850 --> 00:35:59,250
Chill them until they're nice and cool.

349
00:35:59,350 --> 00:36:02,050
Then eat them all before they're completely ripe.

350
00:36:02,190 --> 00:36:05,920
The slight sense of guilt is also part of their flavour.

351
00:36:07,930 --> 00:36:11,260
I preserve them to enjoy throughout the year.

352
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:15,490
I harvest red beans in order, starting with the pods that turn brownish in color first.

353
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:20,100
If I leave them in the fields for too long, the pods will burst open.

354
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:26,740
With the long rains of the season, there are even ones that end up sprouting while they're still in the pods.

355
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:33,420
When this line's green color disappears, that is when I harvest them. 

356
00:36:34,690 --> 00:36:38,620
There are some that harvest the beans earlier saying the pigeons will eat them otherwise.

357
00:36:38,720 --> 00:36:41,280
But my fields have never fallen victim to pigeons.

358
00:36:41,390 --> 00:36:45,920
Perhaps it is because I'm diligent so they are distracted by the weeds and are unable to spot the beans.

359
00:36:46,730 --> 00:36:51,930
When I harvest them, I first air out the pods until they're completely dried out.

360
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:56,270
I know them around with a wooden mallet and separate the pods and the beans.

361
00:36:57,580 --> 00:37:00,480
Then I dry the beans in the sun even more.

362
00:37:01,310 --> 00:37:06,910
It's just about the busy farming autumn season, so I leave them to dry for about a month until things finally reach a standstill.

363
00:37:07,420 --> 00:37:10,050
Besides, I can't be busying myself with that minute kind of work.

364
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:15,530
Once they dry out, they become even more fragrant and won't get infested with bugs during storage.

365
00:37:16,730 --> 00:37:18,750
Winter starts.

366
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,970
I sift through and separte the bad beans and other scraps,

367
00:37:26,170 --> 00:37:28,300
and put them into bins.

368
00:37:30,140 --> 00:37:34,480
This sure is meticulous. I've made too much.

369
00:37:35,620 --> 00:37:40,380
This time, I put the beans that look good and plump somewhere else.

370
00:37:42,020 --> 00:37:46,360
I will use them to sow the fields when the end of springs comes around again.

371
00:37:46,460 --> 00:37:50,920
In Komori, there is a set day every year that we plan the red beans on.

372
00:37:51,030 --> 00:37:54,660
They won't turn out well if you plan them any earlier or later than that.

373
00:37:54,870 --> 00:37:59,740
It will be too cold while they're seedling, or there will be long spells of rain when they want dry weather.

374
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:04,070
They won't cope well with the temperature while they're growing. They might get ill or suffer from insect easily.

375
00:38:08,780 --> 00:38:11,530
The other crops each have their own planting days.

376
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:16,610
They are to be planted considering the situations of the the mountains' flowers and birds during the season.

377
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:20,890
It's the result of heaps of experience over time after all.

378
00:38:20,990 --> 00:38:26,360
That's right. Everything has got its own proper timing to do it.

379
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:28,760
Guess so.

380
00:38:30,670 --> 00:38:34,040
That's right. Probably,

381
00:38:34,170 --> 00:38:37,670
I left here earlier than I should have.

382
00:38:39,310 --> 00:38:41,540
I'm sure of it.

383
00:38:43,750 --> 00:38:45,940
You mustn't be impatient.

384
00:38:46,720 --> 00:38:49,450
When you're making red bean pastes add the sugar too early,

385
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:53,010
no matter how long you cook it, the read beans will never soften.

386
00:38:54,930 --> 00:39:00,890
You put the sugar in after you can easily smoosh the red beans between your fingers.

387
00:39:33,270 --> 00:39:36,930
I get a craving for "hatto" on snowy days.

388
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,800
To make hatto, you knead flour with water

389
00:39:39,910 --> 00:39:43,840
until it's about as solid as an earlobe and then let it sit for over two hours.

390
00:39:44,240 --> 00:39:48,610
If you don't let it sit long enough, the hatto won't have any snap to it.

391
00:39:48,710 --> 00:39:51,480
That's why I prepare it before going snow shoveling.

392
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:10,660
After fermenting, you tear it into parts.

393
00:40:10,770 --> 00:40:13,900
From there, you stretch it thin and boil it in a soup.

394
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:28,280
Time to eat.

395
00:40:41,370 --> 00:40:46,070
It tastes especially tasty when I'm hungry after I'm finished shoveling.

396
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:55,680
Today, I suddenly decided to try mixing in wheat bran.

397
00:41:09,500 --> 00:41:16,160
Usually, the wheat bran are parts of the "wheat's skin" that are removed in the manufacturing process. 

398
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:23,160
Looks so healthy.

399
00:41:29,150 --> 00:41:31,380
Wait, isn't this...

400
00:41:32,020 --> 00:41:34,610
Lemme see... What was it called, again?

401
00:41:39,930 --> 00:41:42,790
Some gutted and headless dried sardines.

402
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:45,220
Dried shiitakes.

403
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:47,700
Carrots.

404
00:41:47,900 --> 00:41:49,730
Daikon.

405
00:41:50,270 --> 00:41:51,960
Burdock.

406
00:41:52,710 --> 00:41:54,730
Taro.

407
00:41:55,210 --> 00:41:57,870
Cut-up fried tofu.

408
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:10,320
Water, sake, mirin and throw them all together in a pot.

409
00:42:12,460 --> 00:42:16,620
You can season it with soy sauce and ginger once you come back.

410
00:42:16,730 --> 00:42:19,820
Place it on a stove with red hot coals.

411
00:42:39,220 --> 00:42:41,350
It's so pretty.

412
00:42:43,660 --> 00:42:45,620
I think I'll go take a walk.

413
00:42:58,300 --> 00:43:01,970
Yesterday, I got into a fight with Kikko.

414
00:43:03,010 --> 00:43:06,340
We were talking about a friend she works with.

415
00:43:06,450 --> 00:43:11,040
Why not? She was just asking for help.

416
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:14,690
Just because she asks for your help, 

417
00:43:14,690 --> 00:43:17,550
doesn't mean it does her any good if you bail her out every time.

418
00:43:17,660 --> 00:43:20,630
I don't think you really have her best interests in mind.

419
00:43:26,900 --> 00:43:28,420
Ichiko...

420
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:33,530
Who do you think you are?

421
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:34,700
What?

422
00:43:36,180 --> 00:43:39,630
Do you really know what you should do for her?

423
00:43:40,350 --> 00:43:43,940
Do you really know what's in a person's best interest and what isn't? 

424
00:43:44,050 --> 00:43:47,280
Are you really that so experienced with things like that?

425
00:43:47,390 --> 00:43:49,820
Even though you don't really know that person?

426
00:43:51,220 --> 00:43:55,920
You always run your mouth as if you're some know-it all.

427
00:43:56,030 --> 00:43:58,260
But that's all talk.

428
00:43:59,060 --> 00:44:04,060
Have you ever faced anybody and said something straight on like that?

429
00:44:30,860 --> 00:44:32,890
A rabbit...

430
00:44:44,580 --> 00:44:47,140
When the clouds drift away,

431
00:44:50,620 --> 00:44:53,380
and the sun starts beaming down,

432
00:44:57,190 --> 00:44:59,890
snow falls from the branches.

433
00:45:06,900 --> 00:45:09,460
But it stops once there's shade.

434
00:45:19,310 --> 00:45:21,580
Light beams down.

435
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:42,260
I guess it's because I'm not able to face peole straight on that I came back to Komori.

436
00:45:47,010 --> 00:45:49,700
I'm so stupid.

437
00:45:56,350 --> 00:46:01,180
All right. Time to get shoveling.

438
00:46:21,540 --> 00:46:23,410
Welcome back.

439
00:46:27,050 --> 00:46:30,740
I made some curry. Let's eat it together.

440
00:46:31,750 --> 00:46:32,880
Okay.

441
00:46:39,060 --> 00:46:43,080
I said too much yesterday. I'm sorry.

442
00:46:43,300 --> 00:46:44,520
It's okay.

443
00:46:47,300 --> 00:46:51,430
- I'll get th rice ready. Gimme a minute.
- I'll heat up the curry.

444
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:52,730
Whoopsie.

445
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:03,600
- Is this bread? Hatto?
- Yup.

446
00:47:05,050 --> 00:47:07,450
- But you see, that's...
- Yeah?

447
00:47:08,950 --> 00:47:10,440
Ah, I know!

448
00:47:11,060 --> 00:47:12,320
Hmm?

449
00:47:13,430 --> 00:47:16,790
Add powder in the table.

450
00:47:17,930 --> 00:47:19,660
Set it in place.

451
00:47:19,770 --> 00:47:21,460
I guess three?

452
00:47:22,940 --> 00:47:25,930
Cut it into three.

453
00:47:27,670 --> 00:47:32,740
Then roll it out with a rolling pin.

454
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:45,010
Fry both sides on high heat in a pre-heated netting.

455
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:47,650
- I'll go stretch this.
- Okay.

456
00:47:51,630 --> 00:47:54,260
- Kikko. Look.
 - Hmm?

457
00:47:54,970 --> 00:47:56,530
Ah!

458
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:59,230
- Wow! It inflated! 
- I know right.

459
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:01,410
Wow!

460
00:48:04,310 --> 00:48:06,830
It's swelling!

461
00:48:07,810 --> 00:48:09,840
It sure is swelling.

462
00:48:09,950 --> 00:48:12,310
- Ah, it's connecting.
 - It grows!

463
00:48:14,650 --> 00:48:16,380
- They connected!
- Awesome!

464
00:48:16,490 --> 00:48:18,220
- Are you sure that's okay?
 - Yeah, it's good.

465
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:21,050
Now, let's turn it over.

466
00:48:21,660 --> 00:48:24,150
Wow! It looks delicious.

467
00:48:24,830 --> 00:48:26,530
- What are these called?
- Chapati.

468
00:48:26,630 --> 00:48:27,720
Chapati?

469
00:48:27,830 --> 00:48:30,060
Though you're actually supposed to leave it overnight before making it.

470
00:48:30,170 --> 00:48:33,700
- Oh, just like hatto then.
 - Yup, like it.

471
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:37,610
Coming up with tricks for making good food really is universal.

472
00:48:40,350 --> 00:48:43,910
- Here you go.
 - It looks so good! Smells good too!

473
00:48:44,020 --> 00:48:46,810
It's an authentic indian-style chicken curry loaded with spices!

474
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:48,180
Yay!

475
00:48:48,690 --> 00:48:49,810
Okay.

476
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:51,820
Let's eat!

477
00:49:03,300 --> 00:49:05,270
- Is it good?
 - Yep!

478
00:49:08,170 --> 00:49:09,370
Wow!

479
00:49:09,470 --> 00:49:11,600
- How is it?
 - It's delicious.

480
00:49:11,710 --> 00:49:14,140
The champati's good too.

481
00:49:15,050 --> 00:49:20,080
Tomorrow will be hatto again, but this time with a soup.

482
00:49:20,390 --> 00:49:21,780
Whoa!

483
00:49:21,890 --> 00:49:24,190
- Here goes!
 - Let's go!

484
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:33,460
That was awesome!

485
00:49:33,570 --> 00:49:35,160
- I'm worn out.
 - Wow.

486
00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:39,300
Tomorrow's another day of snow shoveling.

487
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:41,930
Ah! This feels good!

488
00:50:11,940 --> 00:50:15,460
The vegetables in storage have almost run out.

489
00:50:16,610 --> 00:50:21,480
I take out the salt pickled vegetables that I couldn't bring myself to open before, for fear of wasting them.

490
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:25,480
Brackens I harvested in spring.

491
00:50:26,820 --> 00:50:31,620
After planting the paddies, the old ladies of Komori each enter the mountain

492
00:50:31,720 --> 00:50:33,520
- Hello.
- Oh hi. Hello.

493
00:50:33,630 --> 00:50:37,150
Look at how many bracken I harvested.

494
00:50:37,260 --> 00:50:40,820
and harvest so much bracken that they almost can't carry all of it back.

495
00:50:41,970 --> 00:50:47,870
They pull them up directly by their roots and pluck them where they'll snap easily.

496
00:50:47,970 --> 00:50:50,840
They're best before their sprouts open.

497
00:50:51,380 --> 00:50:55,010
The portion that will be eaten right away is covered in vegetable ash

498
00:50:59,820 --> 00:51:02,550
then blanched and left in water for a night.

499
00:51:02,650 --> 00:51:04,990
That will get rid of the astringent taste.

500
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:10,590
For salt pickling, they're left raw.

501
00:51:14,070 --> 00:51:17,870
You can't skimp on the salt when it comes to this.

502
00:51:19,300 --> 00:51:22,800
If they're not left completely buried under salt, then...

503
00:51:24,780 --> 00:51:27,210
for some reason, they'll melt.

504
00:51:29,310 --> 00:51:31,650
Oh no...

505
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:42,390
When you're going to use them, you leave them in water overnight.

506
00:51:48,630 --> 00:51:52,070
Then once you've removed the salt, you quickly boil them and eat them.

507
00:51:54,370 --> 00:51:56,470
Time to eat.

508
00:51:57,040 --> 00:52:00,270
It's tasty and refreshing with some ginger soy sauce.

509
00:52:00,380 --> 00:52:04,250
They can be put into stews or used as ingrediants for miso soup.

510
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:09,320
Everyone eats them all year round,

511
00:52:10,660 --> 00:52:14,920
but I'm really "kabaneyami" so I never seem to have enough.

512
00:52:15,030 --> 00:52:18,260
"Kabaneyami" means a lazy person.

513
00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:21,990
It's not just with bracken either. I often end up ruining the harvest

514
00:52:22,100 --> 00:52:26,260
that took so much work just because I didn't spend a little more time on it.

515
00:52:27,410 --> 00:52:32,470
In complete contrast, the people of Komori are all diligent and hard workers.

516
00:52:32,580 --> 00:52:39,610
We gathered here today to discuss about the stagnated soil found at the east side of the village.

517
00:52:39,750 --> 00:52:43,920
It's not really managed properly. 

518
00:52:44,020 --> 00:52:51,460
We have reports that there are outbreaks of shield bugs in the perimeter of the paddy. 

519
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:55,120
And the agriculture cooperative is quite far to handle it.

520
00:52:55,270 --> 00:52:58,670
We have previously gathered data regarding this.

521
00:52:58,770 --> 00:53:03,140
Kindly turn to page three of the handouts you're holding.

522
00:53:03,610 --> 00:53:07,310
It might be hard for you to see the data because they're small

523
00:53:07,450 --> 00:53:11,850
but what's written there is how effective we will make use of the paddy.

524
00:53:11,950 --> 00:53:15,010
It's also written there the salary you will receive.

525
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:20,020
Added are the plans regarding the landscape and the paddies in Komori.

526
00:53:20,130 --> 00:53:24,190
We just want to give you an idea of these roles we are thinking.

527
00:53:24,300 --> 00:53:25,520
Here you go.

528
00:53:27,330 --> 00:53:28,860
Thank you.

529
00:53:28,970 --> 00:53:31,830
Hey Ichiko. That's enough. Come on and seat.

530
00:53:31,940 --> 00:53:33,370
No, it's okay.

531
00:53:33,470 --> 00:53:37,700
This whole place all used to be a forest.

532
00:53:37,810 --> 00:53:41,610
We pulled those trees out one by one.

533
00:53:41,710 --> 00:53:46,880
We didn't have machines for back then either. 

534
00:53:46,990 --> 00:53:51,680
It was all done by hand. We pried every one of those tree stumps out.

535
00:53:51,790 --> 00:53:55,390
And that's how we turned the whole place into paddies like how they look now.

536
00:53:55,490 --> 00:53:59,550
Komori's a rocky mountain area.

537
00:53:59,660 --> 00:54:02,720
One time, we found this big boulder lying around.

538
00:54:02,830 --> 00:54:08,070
At that time, we had to use logs and shove it onto them.

539
00:54:08,170 --> 00:54:10,230
Then move it and got it out.

540
00:54:10,340 --> 00:54:15,580
I took care of the horses and cows long ago.

541
00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:18,580
They eventually became the tillers of the land.

542
00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:21,240
They did the same what tractors do.

543
00:54:21,350 --> 00:54:24,850
They did quite a lot of things.

544
00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:30,760
My old man used to be really amazing at it,

545
00:54:30,860 --> 00:54:36,770
though it didn't mean much after they came out with the chainsaw.

546
00:54:36,870 --> 00:54:40,100
He'd wick-wack through the tree no matter.

547
00:54:40,210 --> 00:54:42,770
It's a slope all around here, right?

548
00:54:42,870 --> 00:54:48,440
So the tiller was slipping and falling over.

549
00:54:48,550 --> 00:54:50,950
They were really heavy too.

550
00:54:51,050 --> 00:54:53,750
They were about to crush my toes.

551
00:54:56,050 --> 00:55:00,580
It's not like that's all they're doing at times like these either.

552
00:55:01,730 --> 00:55:04,320
They're growing several kinds of vegetables.

553
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:08,060
They also make grains.

554
00:55:08,730 --> 00:55:11,760
They process them so they can be eaten.

555
00:55:12,870 --> 00:55:15,100
They still take care of housework.

556
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:19,330
And they also raise children.

557
00:55:22,410 --> 00:55:27,610
They still go out to work in the mountains and the streets.

558
00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:31,110
They make provisions for winter.

559
00:55:31,920 --> 00:55:33,910
Every day.

560
00:55:36,190 --> 00:55:38,290
Day after day.

561
00:55:39,700 --> 00:55:41,960
Day after day.

562
00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:51,470
It's around that time when Yuuta comes to talk to me about what I would be doing from then on in Komori.

563
00:55:52,240 --> 00:55:57,980
We have to do something about that stagnated paddies. Everyone's old after all.

564
00:55:58,780 --> 00:56:00,220
Yeah.

565
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:08,620
Listen.

566
00:56:09,730 --> 00:56:15,170
I thought that it's really impressive that you've been giving it your all by yourself with things.

567
00:56:15,970 --> 00:56:20,200
But it somehow feels like you've actually been aveting your eyes from the main point of it all.

568
00:56:20,310 --> 00:56:24,370
And in order to hide that fact, and to fool yourself,

569
00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:28,670
I feel like you're trying so hard at all those different junctures as a way to make up for it.

570
00:56:31,480 --> 00:56:34,540
In reality, that's just running away, right?

571
00:56:36,150 --> 00:56:39,680
I fell completely silent.

572
00:56:40,830 --> 00:56:45,190
It's because he's trying to live a proper life in Komori after all.

573
00:56:47,070 --> 00:56:51,300
He's accepting those things and taking them upon himself.

574
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:55,400
That's why the old men and women at Komori

575
00:56:55,510 --> 00:57:00,040
are enjoying their lives from the bottom of their hearts.

576
00:57:05,850 --> 00:57:07,940
But as for me...

577
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:24,060
A storm always comes at the end of winter.

578
00:57:55,970 --> 00:58:01,800
Mom's letter had words like "going around" or "winding" in them.

579
00:58:01,910 --> 00:58:08,000
But it doesn't actually say what she's doing, where she is or whom living with.

580
00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:19,950
On that day, there is a raging tempets, as snowstorms and spring light rush about, switching places.

581
00:58:25,530 --> 00:58:27,960
It's clearing up again.

582
00:58:35,440 --> 00:58:40,970
I saw the sky split completely into two between pale light and dark clouds.

583
00:58:43,550 --> 00:58:45,540
It's just like me...

584
01:02:40,780 --> 01:02:45,620
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01:02:49,190 --> 01:03:23,300
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586
01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:41,210
Komori (Little Forest) is a small settlement in a village somewhere in the Tohoku region.

587
01:03:41,850 --> 01:03:43,750
There aren't any stores here,

588
01:03:43,850 --> 01:03:47,810
but if you have a little shopping to do, there's a small farmer's co-op supermarket

589
01:03:47,920 --> 01:03:52,410
and some other stores in the the village center, where the town hall is.

590
01:03:52,520 --> 01:03:57,360
The way there is mostly downhill, so that takes about 30 minutes,

591
01:03:57,460 --> 01:04:00,690
but I'm not too sure how long the trip back takes.

592
01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:03,600
During winter, you have to go on foot because of the snow,

593
01:04:03,700 --> 01:04:07,230
so that'll take you something like a good hour and a half.

594
01:04:07,470 --> 01:04:09,200
But it seems that most people

595
01:04:09,310 --> 01:04:14,640
do their shopping at places like the big suburban supermarket in a neighboring city.

596
01:04:15,280 --> 01:04:20,680
When I decide to go there, it nearly ends up taking the whole day.

597
01:06:23,510 --> 01:06:30,710
Komori suddenly changed where the apricots, plums, cherry blossoms and edible wild plants sprung up.

598
01:06:36,990 --> 01:06:39,390
When I head to the mountain, I find...

599
01:06:48,430 --> 01:06:51,830
Shidoke, there they are.

600
01:06:51,940 --> 01:06:56,600
Using it for ohitashi or tempura really brings out the flavour.

601
01:06:58,610 --> 01:07:01,170
I should hold on to them for now.

602
01:07:02,810 --> 01:07:04,510
Enreisou.

603
01:07:05,720 --> 01:07:07,710
Katakuri flowers.

604
01:07:08,820 --> 01:07:10,790
Nirinsou.

605
01:07:12,160 --> 01:07:14,590
Shiraneaoi.

606
01:07:40,550 --> 01:07:44,210
Taranbo. Got it!

607
01:07:49,260 --> 01:07:52,230
I wonder how's the koshiabura.

608
01:07:53,860 --> 01:07:56,030
And the kogomi.

609
01:07:56,170 --> 01:07:59,300
Have they all been snatched up already?

610
01:08:25,400 --> 01:08:27,890
Time to eat!

611
01:08:59,800 --> 01:09:05,330
There was a time at Komori when heavy snowfall occurred.

612
01:09:05,670 --> 01:09:07,400
Snow?

613
01:09:07,510 --> 01:09:11,810
You should wake up a little earlier. Help a little with shoveling the snow.

614
01:09:11,910 --> 01:09:14,880
I'll miss the bus so I need to go. Ah!

615
01:09:14,980 --> 01:09:18,140
I told Kikko that I'd make some bakke miso for her.

616
01:09:18,250 --> 01:09:21,410
Since it snowed and you're off to the mountains anyway. Would yo get some bakke?

617
01:09:21,520 --> 01:09:25,390
You'll just have to pluck them. I'm off!

618
01:09:28,760 --> 01:09:31,990
I've got to shovel all the snow off the road.

619
01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:35,520
Ah.

620
01:09:35,830 --> 01:09:39,000
The bakke might be hidden by the snow.

621
01:09:39,840 --> 01:09:43,500
Does she have any idea how long that's going to take?

622
01:09:46,340 --> 01:09:48,000
Oh well.

623
01:09:58,460 --> 01:09:59,850
Kikko!

624
01:09:59,960 --> 01:10:01,220
- Morning!
- Morning.

625
01:10:01,330 --> 01:10:03,120
The snow's crazy.

626
01:10:03,130 --> 01:10:04,460
It's been snowing since last night.

627
01:10:04,560 --> 01:10:08,290
It's already spring. It'll be the last time it snows for awhile.

628
01:10:08,400 --> 01:10:10,700
I don't think it's ever snowed in May before though.

629
01:10:10,800 --> 01:10:13,030
What? It has!

630
01:10:13,140 --> 01:10:14,709
It will be for awhile.

631
01:10:56,910 --> 01:10:58,610
Huh?

632
01:11:10,090 --> 01:11:11,890
I'm home!

633
01:11:15,100 --> 01:11:16,860
Mom?

634
01:11:20,470 --> 01:11:21,800
Ah.

635
01:11:24,540 --> 01:11:26,840
The bakke miso's ready.

636
01:11:36,620 --> 01:11:39,520
But it needs more sugar.

637
01:11:44,460 --> 01:11:46,990
Maybe she had to go to a meeting...

638
01:11:50,270 --> 01:11:53,860
With that, my mother had disappeared.

639
01:11:57,680 --> 01:11:59,400
Hey! Ichiko!

640
01:11:59,980 --> 01:12:04,540
Stop gazing off and move it!

641
01:12:10,520 --> 01:12:15,890
I bet you leave all the housework to you wife, don't you?

642
01:12:16,790 --> 01:12:21,630
When you get home, the house is probably all warm.

643
01:12:21,830 --> 01:12:24,430
All you do is talk about how it's been a long day at work.

644
01:12:24,540 --> 01:12:27,830
If the laundry's piling up, all you probably do is complain.

645
01:12:27,940 --> 01:12:32,430
But you know, I've got to do it all by myself no matter how tired I am.

646
01:12:32,540 --> 01:12:37,240
I've got to earn the money, but there's nobody to split the chores at home.

647
01:12:37,350 --> 01:12:41,380
While I'm working here, none of them are getting done.

648
01:12:41,490 --> 01:12:43,420
I've got to take care of every single thing at a time.

649
01:12:43,520 --> 01:12:47,050
If I'm shoveling the snow, then there's no way I'm going to finish chopping the wood.

650
01:12:47,160 --> 01:12:49,680
Don't act all high and mighty telling other other people to work harder

651
01:12:49,790 --> 01:12:52,190
when you make your family do whatever you don't wanna do.

652
01:12:52,300 --> 01:12:54,260
I've gotta do everything by myself here.

653
01:12:54,370 --> 01:12:57,630
There's no way you people would understand how much effort it takes when you're pampered by your families.

654
01:12:57,740 --> 01:13:01,500
You have no idea how difficult it is to not have a family...

655
01:13:12,050 --> 01:13:13,380
Mom...

656
01:13:15,690 --> 01:13:22,250
Did she really consider me family?

657
01:13:47,420 --> 01:13:49,440
Ichiko?

658
01:13:52,760 --> 01:13:54,450
Ichiko!

659
01:13:54,760 --> 01:13:56,320
Another one.

660
01:13:56,430 --> 01:13:57,660
How many bowls have you eaten?

661
01:13:57,760 --> 01:13:59,490
That's the third.

662
01:13:59,600 --> 01:14:01,100
Bakke miso's so good.

663
01:14:01,100 --> 01:14:03,070
It's darn good.

664
01:14:04,940 --> 01:14:07,700
Heard bakke miso will keep for around a year if it's in the fridge.

665
01:14:07,810 --> 01:14:10,140
No way, I'll just end up eating it all.

666
01:14:11,280 --> 01:14:15,180
You know, when mom didn't have time, she would put bakke miso in a soup bowl.

667
01:14:15,280 --> 01:14:17,800
She'd pour some hot water in it and call it "miso soup".

668
01:14:22,320 --> 01:14:25,620
Thanks. That sounds pretty good.

669
01:14:25,720 --> 01:14:27,990
Yeah, it's pretty good.

670
01:14:28,290 --> 01:14:29,820
Got some hot water?

671
01:14:49,650 --> 01:14:53,210
Ah! It's not bad at all.

672
01:14:53,320 --> 01:14:54,880
Told you.

673
01:14:55,820 --> 01:14:57,840
It works!

674
01:15:01,190 --> 01:15:03,720
- Yeah, it's good enough.
- Yup.

675
01:15:32,360 --> 01:15:34,760
This is a horsetail root.

676
01:15:36,030 --> 01:15:39,550
If I just leave something this small, a whole huge filed will grow in no time.

677
01:15:39,860 --> 01:15:43,360
Till the soil, pull out the roots.

678
01:15:44,540 --> 01:15:49,230
Till the soil, pull out the roots.

679
01:16:00,250 --> 01:16:04,910
Mugwort roots. Bracken roots. Horsetail roots.

680
01:16:05,020 --> 01:16:08,150
I pulled so many out last year too.

681
01:16:09,730 --> 01:16:12,250
Till the soil.

682
01:16:13,430 --> 01:16:15,920
Pull out the roots.

683
01:16:17,400 --> 01:16:22,810
There was so much all over the fields, that I figured it would be a wate to not at least eat some of it.

684
01:16:22,910 --> 01:16:26,340
But when you've got a huge pile of the, it's a such a chore taking off the husk one by one.

685
01:16:26,440 --> 01:16:31,140
It takes a lot of time working on it, and your shoulders start aching.

686
01:16:31,250 --> 01:16:34,580
But if you don't take them off, they'd end up in your mouth when you eat them.

687
01:16:34,690 --> 01:16:37,050
Even worse, your finger tips end up all black.

688
01:16:43,360 --> 01:16:45,090
So then you boil them.

689
01:17:13,290 --> 01:17:17,990
It then shrinks in volume and you just end up with this much from that big heap.

690
01:17:18,100 --> 01:17:21,360
You spend all that time and work but this is all you end up with.

691
01:17:21,470 --> 01:17:26,660
Besides, even though you've put so much effort, it really isn't self-satisfying or something.

692
01:17:26,770 --> 01:17:31,330
Like, you're already this busy and you spend so much time and effort and this is what you've accomplished.

693
01:17:31,810 --> 01:17:36,870
Oh well. I think it's an extravagant dish.

694
01:17:36,980 --> 01:17:40,110
- Well, eat up.
- Okay.

695
01:17:40,380 --> 01:17:41,480
There.

696
01:17:43,190 --> 01:17:45,710
Horsetails really are just weeds after all.

697
01:17:45,820 --> 01:17:49,050
When they overgrow, no matter how many you try to pluck out, there's no getting rid of them.

698
01:17:49,160 --> 01:17:52,190
The roots are so small that you just can't pull them all out.

699
01:17:52,830 --> 01:17:54,590
Well. You might say that but...

700
01:17:54,700 --> 01:17:58,570
We humans are the ones that created the environment that these horsetails grow.

701
01:17:58,670 --> 01:18:04,370
We opened up these forests. And in the past, like in the 14k BC to 300BC,

702
01:18:04,680 --> 01:18:07,580
there were very few places in which the horsetail could grow.

703
01:18:07,680 --> 01:18:11,550
Instead of being a weed, it could have been considered a precious source of food.

704
01:18:12,520 --> 01:18:17,540
They might be regarded as a blessing of the mountains that mark the beginning of spring.

705
01:18:17,850 --> 01:18:22,220
And maybe the people from ancient times must've considered the horsetail very important.

706
01:18:22,860 --> 01:18:24,720
How would I put this...

707
01:18:26,900 --> 01:18:33,060
They might be the tiny spirits of the green earth, gallantly aiming towards the heavens.

708
01:18:41,550 --> 01:18:44,480
And besides, this is really yummy.

709
01:18:44,580 --> 01:18:50,580
You can really taste the flavour of the horsetail. You're really good at cooking, Ichiko.

710
01:18:50,990 --> 01:18:52,250
Okay!

711
01:18:54,560 --> 01:18:57,930
- Did it lit?
- Yeah.

712
01:18:58,830 --> 01:19:01,420
- Okay!
- Thanks.

713
01:19:02,570 --> 01:19:05,760
He's two years my junior that attended the branch school.

714
01:19:07,570 --> 01:19:14,100
I guess I must have a weak spot for tall men that are say wax romantic.

715
01:19:52,920 --> 01:19:55,150
Oh. Hello.

716
01:19:55,250 --> 01:19:56,690
Hi.

717
01:19:56,790 --> 01:19:59,190
I came to help with the wood chopping.

718
01:19:59,290 --> 01:20:01,350
- Is Mr Minoo going to work at the mountains?
- Yup.

719
01:20:01,460 --> 01:20:04,860
- I was about to do that later this day.
- You're in luck!

720
01:20:04,960 --> 01:20:08,120
Ah. I'm going to harvest some nobiru. Help me and get the strainer.

721
01:20:08,230 --> 01:20:09,290
Okay.

722
01:20:11,070 --> 01:20:12,830
- That?
- Yup.

723
01:20:17,640 --> 01:20:20,340
The nobiru grows surrounding the house.

724
01:20:22,250 --> 01:20:24,340
That's quite a lot.

725
01:20:24,980 --> 01:20:29,710
Also the bok choy that were planted too late the previous year.

726
01:20:29,820 --> 01:20:33,310
They are left in the fields and continue living under the snow.

727
01:20:33,420 --> 01:20:37,020
But in the spring, they extend their stalk and form buds.

728
01:20:38,660 --> 01:20:40,530
You know,

729
01:20:41,360 --> 01:20:44,060
I use these young leaves as ingredients for soup.

730
01:20:44,170 --> 01:20:47,070
Making the buds into ohitashi is quite tasty too.

731
01:20:47,170 --> 01:20:50,900
Really? But people say that they're no good once they flower.

732
01:20:51,010 --> 01:20:57,210
Well, that's because if there are flowers, that means the root crops aren't going to get any bigger. Then the leafy parts going to get stiff.

733
01:20:58,850 --> 01:21:01,410
But we're doing this to harvest the buds anyway.

734
01:21:01,520 --> 01:21:05,920
The buds that appear can be eaten earlier than the other edible plants.

735
01:21:06,690 --> 01:21:09,390
Washing the nobiru is such a pain.

736
01:21:10,690 --> 01:21:12,530
We've got a little too much.

737
01:21:17,330 --> 01:21:20,240
I grill the leftover salted sea trout.

738
01:21:21,870 --> 01:21:24,240
Then boil some spaghetti.

739
01:21:26,540 --> 01:21:30,570
I quickly toss both the green and white parts of the nobiru with oil,

740
01:21:44,560 --> 01:21:46,930
add some pasta water stock and make a sauce.

741
01:21:58,070 --> 01:22:01,100
I add the buds to the spaghetti that's done boiling,

742
01:22:04,280 --> 01:22:06,440
then mix it with the sauce.

743
01:22:10,690 --> 01:22:12,310
Aw, aw, aw, aw.

744
01:22:15,560 --> 01:22:16,820
Next.

745
01:22:30,270 --> 01:22:34,300
"Pasta with salted sea trout, nobiru and bok choy buds."

746
01:22:36,680 --> 01:22:37,840
Mmm!

747
01:22:37,950 --> 01:22:39,850
I just threw together what I had left. How is it?

748
01:22:39,950 --> 01:22:43,720
The saltiness of the nobiru gives it a nice touch. Instead of using spaghetti,

749
01:22:43,820 --> 01:22:46,350
it might be better if you make it into a stir-fry with potatoes.

750
01:22:46,460 --> 01:22:49,520
The potatoes have pretty much all sprouted.

751
01:22:49,630 --> 01:22:52,650
I've been weeding them but I guess it's time to stop.

752
01:22:53,460 --> 01:22:57,660
Aren't the buds of the potatoes poisonous?

753
01:22:58,470 --> 01:23:00,330
I think.

754
01:23:02,840 --> 01:23:05,000
Maybe I should put some in my boss's tea.

755
01:23:06,740 --> 01:23:08,680
Why?

756
01:23:09,850 --> 01:23:11,210
It's nothing.

757
01:23:16,650 --> 01:23:19,850
You seem to be so into it, Kikko.

758
01:23:22,390 --> 01:23:27,060
Ugh! You know, I'm really sick of my boss.

759
01:23:27,160 --> 01:23:29,930
All he cares about is covering his own butt and don't consider other people.

760
01:23:30,030 --> 01:23:32,900
Like during our business meeting, he spends it just praising the president.

761
01:23:33,000 --> 01:23:36,910
He's acting like someone from another company! He acts like he's so capable and a yes-man about taking on the work.

762
01:23:37,010 --> 01:23:39,530
But he's justtying his own noose and can't ever finish it in the end.

763
01:23:39,640 --> 01:23:44,080
Then he makes everyone else around him foot he bill and acts like that should be the way! It frickin' pisses me off!

764
01:23:44,180 --> 01:23:48,550
If it's a failure, then it's all someone else's fault! If it's a success, it's all thanks to him!

765
01:23:48,850 --> 01:23:52,080
So you are trying to relieve stress when you're chopping the firewood, huh?

766
01:23:52,190 --> 01:23:57,060
That bastard got absolutely no sense of responsibility! He's completely shallow! 

767
01:23:57,160 --> 01:23:59,420
And on top of that! On top of that!

768
01:23:59,530 --> 01:24:04,130
Who do you think you are! How dare you bad mouth others behind their backs! 

769
01:24:04,230 --> 01:24:09,570
If you pick up on others are being sly, then it means you've got same thing in your mind too!

770
01:24:09,670 --> 01:24:14,370
All that's grown up about you is your body. What a pity! 

771
01:24:28,860 --> 01:24:31,880
It's been awhile since I've been scolded by gramps.

772
01:24:32,400 --> 01:24:33,760
Yeah.

773
01:24:37,870 --> 01:24:39,890
But I sort of feel relieved now!

774
01:24:42,040 --> 01:24:45,410
I guess even you get a bit emotional during springtime.

775
01:24:45,510 --> 01:24:47,910
I guess so.

776
01:24:50,150 --> 01:24:51,580
It's all cut now.

777
01:24:51,680 --> 01:24:53,880
Yeah, it's done!

778
01:25:32,090 --> 01:25:35,150
Cabbage whites are harmful bugs.

779
01:25:35,930 --> 01:25:41,120
"Cabbage white -> Kill" have became a conditioned reflex.

780
01:25:48,340 --> 01:25:52,300
A long time ago, when Mom and I went around the city...

781
01:26:44,390 --> 01:26:48,690
I can't forget the expression of the people that were riding the same bus.

782
01:26:53,340 --> 01:26:58,540
They start showing up when you start sowing the seeds and plan the seedlings.

783
01:27:09,490 --> 01:27:14,390
Every day, you go around checking the front and back side of the leaves.

784
01:27:15,020 --> 01:27:20,220
You get rid of the eggs that were laid trying to hide somewhere.

785
01:27:23,500 --> 01:27:25,230
Nevertheless...

786
01:27:30,040 --> 01:27:33,910
These pests are just eating there!

787
01:27:39,020 --> 01:27:41,420
They're so many!

788
01:27:42,390 --> 01:27:44,720
They're all so big!

789
01:27:45,260 --> 01:27:49,920
I'm pretty lenient when it comes to cabbage white butterflies. Considering what happened in the bus.

790
01:27:50,030 --> 01:27:53,430
But I show no mercy to the caterpillars.

791
01:27:56,300 --> 01:27:58,270
Cabbage is different from bok choy.

792
01:27:58,370 --> 01:28:02,270
Their entire body curl into a ball for you. They're a very nice bunch.

793
01:28:07,710 --> 01:28:09,540
Freshly harvested spring cabbage

794
01:28:09,650 --> 01:28:13,480
can be eaten raw without adding anything and still be very tasty.

795
01:28:13,580 --> 01:28:19,950
Also, when you put some perilla or olive oil in it, and sprinkle with a little bit of salt to taste.

796
01:28:20,090 --> 01:28:23,790
It really brings out the sweetness and I just can't stop muching on it.

797
01:28:26,400 --> 01:28:30,460
As for the leaves on the outside that are harder even if you boil or saute them,

798
01:28:30,570 --> 01:28:33,260
you chop them and use them for mixed tempura (kakiage).

799
01:28:58,800 --> 01:29:01,160
It's sweet and has a nice texture.

800
01:29:08,810 --> 01:29:11,210
Cabbage's weakness is rain.

801
01:29:11,310 --> 01:29:15,180
When rain hits the cabbages that are curled up and plump...

802
01:29:16,050 --> 01:29:17,480
It causes it rupture.

803
01:29:23,820 --> 01:29:29,880
Around this time of the year, the people at Komori wander around and survey each other's fields.

804
01:29:29,990 --> 01:29:32,220
Hey~ How are things?

805
01:29:32,330 --> 01:29:33,730
Yeah, it looks okay.

806
01:29:33,830 --> 01:29:36,090
Oh, looks like it.

807
01:29:36,330 --> 01:29:38,230
Ichiko! Hello!

808
01:29:38,330 --> 01:29:40,030
Hello.

809
01:29:40,340 --> 01:29:42,700
What did you plant?

810
01:29:48,010 --> 01:29:49,910
- Yo!
- Hey!

811
01:29:50,010 --> 01:29:52,780
Do you still have any cabbage left? I was asked to check up on them.

812
01:29:52,880 --> 01:29:57,220
One after anther, the balled up cabbages are shared with others.

813
01:29:57,350 --> 01:30:00,880
Every year, I plant too many and end up not being able to eat them all.

814
01:30:01,360 --> 01:30:06,290
I always know I do, but I'm just so scared of bad weather that I end up planting more than enough.

815
01:30:09,200 --> 01:30:12,330
I wonder if there are ny new ways to eat cabbage.

816
01:30:12,440 --> 01:30:15,230
I must get my hands on this hidden jewel...

817
01:30:17,670 --> 01:30:19,370
Cabbage is...

818
01:30:20,040 --> 01:30:21,570
Sweet...

819
01:30:23,350 --> 01:30:25,110
Confections...

820
01:30:26,850 --> 01:30:28,750
Cake...

821
01:30:29,150 --> 01:30:30,710
Oh yeah.

822
01:30:30,820 --> 01:30:34,590
You can make carrot cakes, so it might be possible.

823
01:30:36,060 --> 01:30:39,790
Well, you can't grate it so I guess you have to use a food processor.

824
01:30:45,740 --> 01:30:49,300
Flour, sugar and eggs.

825
01:30:49,410 --> 01:30:53,270
Let's keep it simple for now and leave out the raisins.

826
01:30:59,320 --> 01:31:04,280
If I'm doing that, instead of butter, maybe I should use salad oil.

827
01:31:10,760 --> 01:31:14,130
And for the main flavor, I should use some sort of spice...

828
01:31:15,500 --> 01:31:19,830
It's cabbage. So maybe squeezed ginger juice would go with it.

829
01:31:19,940 --> 01:31:22,630
This is definitely gonna work.

830
01:31:23,270 --> 01:31:27,140
I wonder why nobody has thought of this before.

831
01:31:30,450 --> 01:31:37,320
I feel like this could become a staple cake just like carrot cakes.

832
01:31:37,950 --> 01:31:40,420
I could be a genius!

833
01:31:41,160 --> 01:31:44,060
Hmm? Okay.

834
01:31:50,970 --> 01:31:53,600
This smell of being baked...

835
01:31:53,700 --> 01:31:56,000
It's new.

836
01:31:57,640 --> 01:31:59,340
Wait.

837
01:32:00,310 --> 01:32:03,010
It smells rather familiar.

838
01:32:03,810 --> 01:32:06,340
It should be first in the world then why?

839
01:32:07,320 --> 01:32:10,180
But I've definitely smelled this aroma before.

840
01:32:11,650 --> 01:32:13,680
Cabbage...

841
01:32:14,490 --> 01:32:16,860
Wheat flour...

842
01:32:18,160 --> 01:32:20,360
Eggs...

843
01:32:21,830 --> 01:32:23,700
Ginger...

844
01:32:26,640 --> 01:32:29,870
Hmm...

845
01:32:37,650 --> 01:32:39,550
What do you think?

846
01:32:40,050 --> 01:32:41,240
Hmm.

847
01:32:42,850 --> 01:32:44,650
It's okonomiyaki.

848
01:32:50,690 --> 01:32:52,390
Do you have sauce?

849
01:33:24,290 --> 01:33:28,750
Among the first things that I plan in spring are potatoes.

850
01:33:29,570 --> 01:33:32,230
I always want to plan them as soon as I can.

851
01:33:32,770 --> 01:33:38,000
But even if the snow has finally begun to thaw, because of all the snowmelt water, the fields are drenched.

852
01:33:38,110 --> 01:33:42,100
I will ahve to wait until the soil dries to work.

853
01:33:45,410 --> 01:33:49,370
That's why, I ploughed the field before the snow fell last year.

854
01:33:49,490 --> 01:33:54,750
I got everything ready that I could plant them right away then covered it with an agricultural grae vinyl sheet.

855
01:34:07,270 --> 01:34:09,130
The snow falls.

856
01:34:16,780 --> 01:34:18,970
The snow thaws.

857
01:34:27,260 --> 01:34:31,990
I make holes in the vinyl sheets, then set the potato seedlings in even intervals.

858
01:34:32,090 --> 01:34:34,150
Then cover them with soil.

859
01:34:43,210 --> 01:34:47,770
It may still be cold right now, but by doing this, when the potato sprouts start to grow and their faces peek out from the soil,

860
01:34:47,880 --> 01:34:52,870
I've made sure that it'll be warm enough that I won't have to really worry about the frost.

861
01:35:05,530 --> 01:35:10,900
For the sprouts that come budding out one by one, I prune them so that three or four are left on each plant.

862
01:35:15,840 --> 01:35:20,710
If I don't do this, then I'll get stuck with mini potatoes that take a lot of trouble to peel.

863
01:35:31,220 --> 01:35:33,710
After that, all I have to do is leave them alone.

864
01:35:36,160 --> 01:35:38,390
Their pretty flowers will bloom.

865
01:35:42,530 --> 01:35:46,730
Then once the stem and leaves start to droop, that's when they should be harvested.

866
01:35:54,710 --> 01:35:57,580
I boil the new potatoes right away.

867
01:36:03,920 --> 01:36:06,950
Then I just sprinkle some salt on top and eat them while they're still hot.

868
01:36:07,060 --> 01:36:09,320
They're warm, soft and sweet.

869
01:36:27,080 --> 01:36:28,770
There are some

870
01:36:30,750 --> 01:36:34,270
that I pick at the watercress that has been growing around the ditches.

871
01:36:35,120 --> 01:36:40,210
I add salt, pepper, shredded onions, some dressing mixed with oil,

872
01:36:40,320 --> 01:36:45,120
together with the boild potatoes that I cut into bite sizes and make a salad.

873
01:36:56,240 --> 01:36:59,300
It's one of the entrees in the standard menu for breakfast.

874
01:37:01,780 --> 01:37:03,610
Time to eat.

875
01:37:21,260 --> 01:37:26,330
Then there's a "pain a la pomme de terre", the potato bread.

876
01:37:29,970 --> 01:37:33,670
The dough contains mashed up potatoes.

877
01:37:43,050 --> 01:37:48,890
It's light, fluffly and faintly sweet. It was one of the dishes my mother was always proud of.

878
01:37:50,890 --> 01:37:56,530
There's a secret. Why don't you try making it? I guarantee that it won't turn out like this.

879
01:37:58,830 --> 01:38:03,570
She was right. No matter how much I tried, I was unable to make it as fluffy.

880
01:38:43,250 --> 01:38:45,540
Hmm...

881
01:38:50,720 --> 01:38:56,590
It still needs something. But it's pretty good as it is.

882
01:38:57,190 --> 01:39:00,960
The ingredients and their proportions are completely secret.

883
01:39:01,060 --> 01:39:03,960
Okay. I'll let you in all the details when you turn twenty.

884
01:39:04,070 --> 01:39:06,090
That's really unfair!

885
01:39:15,540 --> 01:39:19,110
When it was autumn, a letter arrived from my mother.

886
01:39:22,550 --> 01:39:25,880
It was pretty long and had excuses written on it.

887
01:39:25,990 --> 01:39:28,820
How she was thinking about starting an orchard and such.

888
01:39:28,920 --> 01:39:31,950
It had all sorts of things written in it.

889
01:39:35,660 --> 01:39:40,070
But she didn't include her recipe for pain a la pomme de terre.

890
01:39:40,170 --> 01:39:44,610
That's why, though I still don't know how my mother made it,

891
01:39:46,110 --> 01:39:48,980
before I knew it, I came up with my own recipe for the potato bread

892
01:39:49,080 --> 01:39:53,410
that was different from my mother's.

893
01:39:57,790 --> 01:40:01,880
After harvesting the potatoes, I make sure that there's no sunlight hitting them.

894
01:40:01,990 --> 01:40:03,720
I let them thoroughly.

895
01:40:05,090 --> 01:40:07,490
Then pack them into a carboard box.

896
01:40:08,800 --> 01:40:14,170
After all, potatoes keep well. They're a valuable food source during winter.

897
01:40:15,440 --> 01:40:18,547
If I happen to pen a box and find buds growing,

898
01:40:18,541 --> 01:40:22,510
as long as I trim them off quickly, I can keep eatin them till spring.

899
01:40:23,810 --> 01:40:25,010
In other words,

900
01:40:25,250 --> 01:40:30,310
the first thing to do after winter is over is prepare food for the next winter.

901
01:40:34,660 --> 01:40:38,850
Living in Komori is a repetition of that.

902
01:40:43,300 --> 01:40:45,130
This was my mother's letter.

903
01:40:49,000 --> 01:40:50,730
"Every time I'm stuck on something"

904
01:40:50,840 --> 01:40:53,870
"and look back at how I ended up getting there,"

905
01:40:53,980 --> 01:40:57,910
"I think to myself that I always stumble on the same kind of thing."

906
01:40:58,010 --> 01:41:03,610
"Though I was sure that I covered ground, it only feels like I've been going around in circles and got back to where I started."

907
01:41:03,720 --> 01:41:06,950
"Once I am back from where I started, I get depressed."

908
01:41:07,060 --> 01:41:13,290
"But I've gained experience from all that. So whether I fail or succeed,"

909
01:41:13,400 --> 01:41:16,360
"there's no way I'm the exact same place, is there?"

910
01:41:16,700 --> 01:41:21,160
"So I thought, then it's not a 'circle' but it's a 'spiral'."

911
01:41:21,270 --> 01:41:26,000
"Even if it appears that I'm going around in the same place,"

912
01:41:26,110 --> 01:41:30,270
"I definitely have to be moving a little bit up or down."

913
01:41:30,380 --> 01:41:33,040
"I guess that'd be better than before."

914
01:41:33,220 --> 01:41:39,550
"No. Maybe humans are 'spirals' themselves."

915
01:41:39,760 --> 01:41:42,520
"They're going around in the same place."

916
01:41:42,620 --> 01:41:48,790
"But whenever something hapens, they either stretch furhter up or down or maybe to the side."

917
01:41:49,930 --> 01:41:54,160
"The circle that I draw gets larger and expands."

918
01:41:54,270 --> 01:41:58,730
"By doing that, the 'spiral' must gradually get bigger as well."

919
01:41:59,110 --> 01:42:05,600
"And if I think about it that way, I feel like I'm able to try a bit harder."

920
01:42:13,920 --> 01:42:18,790
When I first read it, I didn't really understand what she was talking about. But now...

921
01:42:24,770 --> 01:42:30,970
Even though I've done all the preparations for the fields, I've decided not to plant potatoes this year.

922
01:42:40,620 --> 01:42:42,980
Because I've decided...

923
01:42:43,620 --> 01:42:46,140
...I won't be here next winter.

924
01:43:23,830 --> 01:43:25,690
Hello.

925
01:43:26,660 --> 01:43:28,460
Oh, why if it isn't Yuuta.

926
01:43:28,560 --> 01:43:30,230
Is Kikko around?

927
01:43:30,330 --> 01:43:33,390
She headed over to Ichiko's fields.

928
01:43:33,500 --> 01:43:36,370
- Then I'll try there.
- Okay.

929
01:44:01,200 --> 01:44:02,420
Hey.

930
01:44:02,530 --> 01:44:04,090
Yo.

931
01:44:08,940 --> 01:44:14,400
Ichiko asked me t take care of the onions since she planted all the seedlings already.

932
01:44:14,780 --> 01:44:18,180
Isn't this a bit much for just one person?

933
01:44:18,280 --> 01:44:21,740
I love using onions in all sorts of exciting ways.

934
01:44:22,380 --> 01:44:26,580
Cut them in half, dribbled with oil, oven baked, and seasoned with pepper salt.

935
01:44:27,260 --> 01:44:29,720
Like entire boiled onions in a soup.

936
01:44:32,790 --> 01:44:35,630
Once she decided on it, she sure left quickly.

937
01:44:35,730 --> 01:44:37,390
Yeah.

938
01:44:41,140 --> 01:44:44,370
But to be honest, I'm reconsidered my take on it.

939
01:44:44,470 --> 01:44:45,800
Hmm?

940
01:44:47,710 --> 01:44:51,300
You see, Ichiko has this side to her where she drags her feet a bit.

941
01:44:51,410 --> 01:44:52,900
I guess.

942
01:44:55,250 --> 01:44:58,280
Did she say something?

943
01:44:59,090 --> 01:45:04,750
She said it didn't sit right with her to just continue staying in Komori like that.

944
01:45:07,260 --> 01:45:10,290
If you remember,

945
01:45:10,430 --> 01:45:15,300
Ichiko didn't have anywhere else to run to and only came back here because she had no choice.

946
01:45:15,400 --> 01:45:19,200
She said that shouldn't be the case and wanted to properly choose

947
01:45:19,310 --> 01:45:21,970
a place to live with the feeling that she was facing things.

948
01:45:23,950 --> 01:45:28,250
If she doesn't able to establish a place she feels like she rightly belongs in even if it's in the city,

949
01:45:28,750 --> 01:45:33,980
and still avoids the choice, she feels like it's disrespectful to Komori.

950
01:45:35,820 --> 01:45:37,550
I see...

951
01:45:38,290 --> 01:45:41,490
Well, she said something similar to me too.

952
01:45:42,460 --> 01:45:46,200
But she cares a lot about appearances and hates losing.

953
01:45:46,300 --> 01:45:48,860
She really overthinks things and isn't that very flexible, is she?

954
01:45:48,970 --> 01:45:52,840
I mean, if she likes it here, then she can just live here.

955
01:45:53,380 --> 01:45:57,940
- I think it's fine if she takes a detour...
- No, that's acting like some unhappy princess.

956
01:45:58,980 --> 01:46:01,350
That's harsh.

957
01:46:04,490 --> 01:46:07,510
Growing onions begins with cultivating the seedlings.

958
01:46:14,830 --> 01:46:18,860
At the start of autumn, the soil must be packed well when seeds are sown.

959
01:46:19,170 --> 01:46:23,040
It is covered with a woven mat for about five days.

960
01:46:26,140 --> 01:46:31,080
Once they begin to sprout, you take the mat off. You grow them until they're about seven to eight millimeters thick.

961
01:46:35,180 --> 01:46:38,050
Then you plant them permanently in a field that has been fertilized.

962
01:46:47,200 --> 01:46:49,720
Let the winter pass as it is.

963
01:46:53,030 --> 01:46:58,370
Once the snow is gone and it begins to get warm, the seedlings that cn sprout onion heds will come out.

964
01:46:58,870 --> 01:47:01,400
But you pull those ones up as early as possible.

965
01:47:04,710 --> 01:47:09,280
The plants that have gorwn onion heads end up with tough onions and don't taste very good.

966
01:47:09,380 --> 01:47:11,350
Really?

967
01:47:12,150 --> 01:47:15,750
The onions that get pulled up early are still small but they're edible.

968
01:47:15,860 --> 01:47:18,590
And their leaves can be used just like the onions.

969
01:47:19,390 --> 01:47:23,590
You harvest them before the rainy season and pull them up while the leaves are still green.

970
01:47:25,230 --> 01:47:29,600
You dry them until the leaves begin to wilt. Then string them up then hang them at the eaves of the house to preserve them.

971
01:47:31,240 --> 01:47:36,470
With winter, it took ten whole months. They take an enexpectedly long time to grow.

972
01:47:36,580 --> 01:47:38,010
That sounds similar to her, huh?

973
01:47:41,920 --> 01:47:44,440
Aw, aw, aw, aw.

974
01:47:45,250 --> 01:47:47,740
What happened to the old lady who plows Ichiko's fields? 

975
01:47:47,860 --> 01:47:50,290
Huh? That's me now.

976
01:47:52,590 --> 01:47:56,000
If you leave it alone and try turning it back into a field wold be a lot of work.

977
01:47:56,100 --> 01:47:59,290
That's why the old lady told me to take care of it.

978
01:47:59,940 --> 01:48:03,840
I have helped with it before when things were busy at home.

979
01:48:03,940 --> 01:48:06,670
But I've never taken care of one properly or grown vegetables before.

980
01:48:06,780 --> 01:48:09,610
So I figured I might as well give it a shot.

981
01:48:10,610 --> 01:48:13,310
So you're watching over the fields for her.

982
01:48:14,120 --> 01:48:17,980
Besides, she'll probably be back soon anyways.

983
01:49:13,253 --> 01:49:18,808
[ A Little Forest's Grand Harvest Festival ]

984
01:49:24,020 --> 01:49:26,390
- These new potatoes.
- New potatoes, right up!

985
01:49:26,590 --> 01:49:29,790
It won't be long till you harvest them. Yeah.

986
01:49:53,880 --> 01:49:55,440
Ah. Ichiko.

987
01:49:55,550 --> 01:49:59,180
- Ah hello. It's been awhile.
- I heard that you had come back, but I had no idea.

988
01:49:59,290 --> 01:50:01,450
She went to town in order to get a husband, right?

989
01:50:01,560 --> 01:50:04,790
It ended up like that, but I'm telling you that's not what I had in mind when I left.

990
01:50:04,890 --> 01:50:05,990
Hello!

991
01:50:06,090 --> 01:50:08,460
Oh Kikko! How's the baby?

992
01:50:08,560 --> 01:50:10,590
My husband is looking over him.

993
01:50:14,900 --> 01:50:16,630
- He's adorable.
- Thank you.

994
01:50:16,740 --> 01:50:17,970
Would you like one of these?

995
01:50:18,070 --> 01:50:22,840
- Ganzuki, huh? That brings back memories!
- Everyone at the women's association steamed up a batch.

996
01:50:22,940 --> 01:50:25,810
There's hatto and amazake over there too.

997
01:50:25,910 --> 01:50:29,210
Mom used to make ganzuki when I was a kid.

998
01:50:29,320 --> 01:50:31,229
But I used to fight over them with my siblings.

999
01:50:31,269 --> 01:50:34,010
This one's filled with walnuts. This one's with egoma seeds.

1000
01:50:34,120 --> 01:50:38,120
I made ones with egoma back in the day too! I remember everyone had to help.

1001
01:50:38,230 --> 01:50:39,960
Wow.

1002
01:50:40,430 --> 01:50:45,060
We're planning on having lots of kids and reviving the branch school.

1003
01:50:45,170 --> 01:50:48,000
You must be getting along well then. By the way, where's your husband, Ichiko?

1004
01:50:48,100 --> 01:50:51,470
Ah. He's getting ready over by the classroom for the kagura.

1005
01:50:54,040 --> 01:50:55,600
There would be a kagura?

1006
01:50:55,710 --> 01:50:59,010
Yeah, we haven't gotten together much so we lack practice.

1007
01:50:59,110 --> 01:51:00,340
- You're in it too?
- Yeah.

1008
01:51:00,450 --> 01:51:02,180
I have to also go and get ready. See you later.

1009
01:51:02,183 --> 01:51:03,510
- I'll leave them to you.
- Got it. Later.

1010
01:51:03,620 --> 01:51:05,250
Good luck.

1011
01:51:08,290 --> 01:51:11,350
Now that I remember, she used to be really into children's kagura.

1012
01:51:11,460 --> 01:51:13,360
She hadn't done it much after the branch school closed,

1013
01:51:13,460 --> 01:51:17,690
but she reached out to the alumni that were still close by, and said she was getting people together.

1014
01:51:17,800 --> 01:51:20,030
Everyone loved the idea.

1015
01:51:20,140 --> 01:51:24,660
It would be nice if it gets people to come back to Komori.

1016
01:51:28,310 --> 01:51:30,280
- Excuse me. 
- Go ahead.

1017
01:51:30,550 --> 01:51:33,170
What's wrong? What's wrong, Hii baby?

1018
01:51:33,183 --> 01:51:37,010
I don't get it. Here's mommy dear.

1019
01:51:38,150 --> 01:51:40,380
Are you hungry?

1020
01:51:40,490 --> 01:51:42,290
- What's wrong?
 - I don't know.

1021
02:00:49,400 --> 02:00:54,230
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