Fuyu was touched and accepted, the couple has gone to the coal mine to monitor the workers for Asa, and they later gave birth to a daughter Natsu. The Soft Heart 14th week - 26th week In 1879, maid servant Fuyu, who was initially Hatsu's dowry maid, later accepted by Shirooka family to provide her better life, crushed on Shinjirō, while her father, who saw Fuyu and her sisters as burdens, intended to introduce a marriage for her. Asa was always worrying about her sister Hatsu, and sneaked out to see her from time to time. Kisuke, a manager of Shirooka family business, who has crushed on Fuyu for a long time, and advised Shinjirō to accept Fuyu's confession, proposed to Fuyu. Later Asa decided to hire some female staffs for the bank, to give young girls chance to work, and also create an advantage to other banks.
She gave birth to 4 children of Shingorō. With the escort of Shinjirō from Osaka, she returned home and gave birth to a girl, whom Shōkichi named Chiyo, and spent some time with her. Asa's nephew Ainosuke, who inherit both Mayuyama and Imai family's talent, began interested in business and begged to work in Shirooka family business and study something from it. Characters without name were mentioned but did not appear in the drama. She want to provide opportunity for women to study.
Hatsu's future mother-in-law Kiku is rude and mean, which makes the sisters disturbed. Later, Asa feels regretted as she wanted Shinjiro to only have her as wife. Asa is quite lucky coz Shokichi is open minded and Yono did not prevent her from study and working. So the whole Mayuyama family escaped from their residence and were hiding from their creditors. He would later help Asa and befriend her family throughout his life.
Kyutaro is the eldest son for the family and bcoz of that, he is going to be the heir of his family business. I really love that week. The Mayuyama family thus proceed to Wakayama to begin their new life as tangerine orchard owners. She managed to persuade her husband to give a certificate of a plot of land located at. Asa was engaged to be married to the second son of a distinguished family who ran a money changer business in Osaka, Shirooka Shinjiro. He died at age 59. Hatsu has adopted a life as a peasant with her family, and are quite in poverty.
Godai, Asa managed to transform Kanoya to a mining company and also a bank. As her appearance with Shinjirō was spotted by the men her father introduced, she was also not able to marry. Asa offer to revolutionize the family business as a bank, which made Eizaburō and the head manager Gansuke frustrated for Asa's gained control for the business. Shinjirō gave her an abacus and encouraged her to act on her own will. Asa also thought that during that time, women should be given a chance to study like men does. In 1880, Shinjirō's younger brother, Eizaburō got married with Sachi, a cute girl introduced to him and met his standards. Later Hatsu has been pregnant, while Sōbei disappear for his depression.
This causes Hatsu to be depressed. Hatsu is an obedient child, unlike Asa. Godai Mr Godai is a samurai that Asa meet in her childhood. The man has returned from his study overseas, and hints to Asa that the society is going to change rapidly. Towards the end of the Edo era, in the town of Kyoto, there lived a wealthy merchant by the name of Imai Tadamasa. Although Asa was furious when she had first heard about the betrothal, when she met up with Shinjiro for the first time, his charisma greatly attracted her and she fell in love with him in no time.
The sisters' mother Rie bore great sympathy for Hatsu and cannot watch her elder daughter suffer. Soon after that, Shōkichi passed away, still wanting to see more of Chiyo's growth upon his death. With the business expanding, Chiyo became more displeased with her busy mother and fond of her gentle aunt Hatsu. Shinjirō also began managing social affairs for Osaka business people, and became more important about the family business, to help his wife. After Hatsu fell pregnant with the second son, Yono began to pressurise Shinjirō to take a , for Asa was childless during many years of her marriage.
The sisters later bring Ainosuke to visit their dying grandfather Tadamasa, who deeply loves and trusts his granddaughter Asa throughout her childhood. Shinjiro had ignored that but since Asa was in distress, she had urges her husband herself to get a mistress and Shinjiro accept that idea half-hearted. Fuka Koshiba as Chiyo, Asa and Shinjiro daughter for the sake of family, Asa had make changes to Kanoya business where in future, Kanoya is no longer a money changer. He was also attracted to Asa's unique personality, but remained reasonable, as Asa was a married woman. She was displeased with the arrangements her father made for her and her well-behaved older sister Hatsu, to marry into two merchant families in. But when her fiancé Shinjirō, 11 years older than her, comes to visit and her life begins to change.
In 1868, after the financial crisis appeared, Asa managed to help her family survive it, by acting reliably to the creditors, and offering to extend the coal business for the family. During this time Saisuke Godai Later , a samurai she has met in her childhood, comes to see her. The came to force the family to lend some money to them one night. Asa stood out to ask them whether they would return, as the family run a business with credibility. Shōkichi and Shinjirō managed to fix the relationship to him. Shōkichi was not supportive, for the couple get along well, and Shinjirō is also ignoring the issue.
His eldest, Hatsu, was a traditional girl who loved to play the koto and sew. It was followed by on April 4. He was blessed with 3 children, Hatsu, Asa and Kyutaro. A discontent worker intentionally caused an accident in coal mine during Asa's time staying with her daughter. Hatsu gave birth to a boy, in the Shirooka's household, when she came to bring some vegetables to Asa.