E6 - Now Bloom Inside the Nine-fold Palace

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[00:13] Person A
    What's that?
[00:14] Person B
    A tatami?
[00:16] Person A
    Isn't that Ayase Chihaya?
[00:18] Person B
    Ayase?
[00:19] Person A
    You know?
[00:20] ---
    The one who was putting up
    that karuta club poster.
[00:22] Person C
    Oh, "Beauty in vain."
[00:24] Person D
    Isn't that Mashima from
    Class 1 with her?
[00:27] Person E
    Mashima, as in the one who had
[00:29] ---
    the top score in our grade on the last test?
[00:30] Person A
    Huh? A karuta club?
[00:32] Person B
    When they're both so famous...
[00:34] Person C
    All in vain...
[00:35] Person C
    Club in vain...
[00:38] Taichi
    Chihaya, we're attracting
    too much attention.
[00:40] Person A
    Hey, where's Oe-san?
[00:42] Person B
    She was here a moment ago...
[00:45] Person C
    Is she skipping practice again?
[00:46] Person C
    The captain will have a fit.
[00:55] [POEM] Kana
    So spring ends and summer comes
[01:01] [POEM] Kana
    now white robes hang to
    dry on Mount Amanokagu
[01:05] Person A
    Oe-san! Where did you go?
[01:08] Person B
    Oe-san!
[01:10] Person C
    The upperclassmen are throwing a fit!
[01:12] Kana
    I-I'm sorry!
SIGN    Chihaya Furu
SIGN    Verse 6
SIGN    Now
    Bloom
     Inside
     the
    Ninefold
    Palace
[02:35] Chihaya
    This is it.
[02:36] Taichi
    Huh?
[02:55] Chihaya
    We finally made it!
[02:57] Taichi
    This is our clubroom?
[02:59] Chihaya
    Yeah.
[03:00] ---
    I kept begging the Empress and
    she finally gave it to us.
[03:03] Taichi
    It's a storage room.
[03:05] Taichi
    There's dust everywhere.
[03:06] Chihaya
    Don't complain!
[03:08] Chihaya
    It's quiet.
     Perfect for playing karuta!
[03:11] Chihaya
    Okay, back we go!
[03:12] Chihaya
    We need three more!
[03:14] Taichi
    What? This is enough...
[03:17] Chihaya
    How can you say that,
[03:18] Chihaya
    after the nice man agreed
    to share these with us?!
[03:22] Chihaya
    Once we have five members,
    we'll be recognized as an official club,
[03:24] ---
    and they'll even assign us a teacher!
[03:27] Taichi
    Can we even find three more people?
[03:29] Chihaya
    We can!
[03:30] Chihaya
    We absolutely can!
[03:32] Taichi
    Now look, Chihaya.
[03:34] Chihaya
    Hmm?
[03:35] Taichi
    Do we really need more members?
[03:39] Taichi
    I was pretty surprised.
[03:41] Taichi
    I never knew that was how you felt.
[03:44] (Flashback) Chihaya
    If I can be the best in
    the world at something,
[03:48] (Flashback) Chihaya
    I think it's worth a shot.
[03:52] Taichi
    Your goal is to become the Queen, right?
[03:53] Chihaya
    Huh?
[03:55] Chihaya
    Y-Yeah...
[03:57] Taichi
    You're not serious about
    this at all, are you?!
[03:59] Taichi
    You were just following Arata's lead!
[04:09] Chihaya
    Anyway!
[04:10] Chihaya
    We have to carry three
    more tatami mats over!
[04:12] Chihaya
    Then we practice!
[04:14] Taichi
    Right. Yeah, yeah.
[04:20] Captain
    What's Oe-san like?
SIGN    Archery Club
[04:22] Person A
    No idea. She's always
    reading old books by herself.
[04:25] Person B
    She was born in the wrong era.
[04:29] Kana
    I'm sorry,
[04:31] Kana
    but I can't do it!
[04:33] Kana
    Why must I run in a hakama?
[04:36] Kana
    That would be so embarrassing!
[04:39] Kana
    And I'll never be able to
    hit a target with an arrow!
[04:43] Kana
    I just want to wear
    traditional clothes!
SIGN    Let's start a competitive karuta club! Please come see Ayase Chihaya in class 1-2!!
[04:58] Kana
    Ayase Chihaya-san in class 1-2...
[05:03] Kana
    The lovely girl who
    turns heads everywhere
[05:07] Kana
    is looking for people who know
    the poems of the Hundred Poets.
[05:13] Chihaya
    Oh, dear. You took
    another card off me.
[05:18] Kana
    You're still very strong, Lady Chihaya.
[05:21] Kana
    I should have knocked
    on this door instead!
[05:34] Kana
    I thought that Ms. Miyauchi was
    using the old student council room.
[05:40] Kana
    Oh, no...
[05:41] Kana
    What if they already
    have too many members?
[05:43] [POEM] Reader
    when people and grass grow scarce
[05:54] [POEM] Reader
    Rain takes...
SIGN    leaving a hovering mist above the trees and grass
[06:01] Kana
    Huh?!
[06:03] Taichi
    You're too good at
    first-syllable cards.
[06:07] Kana
    Huh? Huh?
[06:09] [POEM] Reader
    The storm blasts...
[06:12] Kana
    Wait... What...
[06:13] [POEM] Reader
    I wish I could show...
[06:15] Kana
    What is this?
[06:16] [POEM] Reader
    My fear is not of...
[06:23] Kana
    Don't tell me that...
[06:25] Kana
    ...this is karuta?!
[06:29] Both
    Thank you very much!
[06:32] Chihaya
    I won!
[06:33] Chihaya
    But you're actually pretty good.
[06:36] Chihaya
    You took a bunch of cards
    in the first half.
[06:38] Taichi
    I think I've figured out
    why you always start slow.
[06:42] Chihaya
    Huh?
[06:43] Taichi
    You rely on the advantage
    of your ears so much
[06:45] Taichi
    that you haven't learned how
    to memorize card positions.
[06:47] Taichi
    You still can't memorize
    where the cards are.
[06:49] Chihaya
    That's not true.
[06:50] Chihaya
    Today was just a fluke.
[06:52] Chihaya
    I have no trouble in the first
    half at the Shiranami Society.
[06:54] Taichi
    You've only been practicing at
    the Shiranami Society, right?
[06:58] Taichi
    People who train together tend to use the
    same positioning techniques, so it's easier.
[07:01] Taichi
    Against me, you kept
    touching the wrong cards.
[07:04] Taichi
    So in other words,
[07:06] Taichi
    you're an idiot.
[07:08] Chihaya
    Yet you lost to that idiot!
[07:10] Chihaya
    Idiot!
[07:10] Taichi
    You even talk like an idiot, idiot.
[07:14] Chihaya
    Oh?
[07:15] Kana
    Huh?
[07:17] Chihaya
    Huh?
[07:18] Chihaya
    Welcome!
[07:22] Chihaya
    Wait!
[07:30] Kana
    I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
[07:31] Chihaya
    Why are you running away?!
[07:33] Chihaya
    Are you here because you're
    interested in karuta?!
[07:35] Chihaya
    Do you like karuta?!
[07:38] Kana
    Y-Yes, I guess...
[07:46] Kana
    As you already know,
[07:48] ---
    the Ogura Hundred Poets lived
    during the Kamakura period.
[07:51] Kana
    Fujiwara no Teika
[07:52] Kana
    compiled them by taking one poem
    each from 100 of the best poets,
[07:54] Kana
    in chronological order from
     Emperor Tenji to the Retired Emperor Juntoku
[07:59] Kana
    to decorate the sliding doors
    at the Ogura mountain villa,
[08:04] Kana
    the summer home of the general
    and poet Utsunomiya Yoritsuna.
[08:08] Kana
    I love the backstory.
[08:10] Kana
    Many of the selected poems
    were ornamental in nature,
[08:14] Kana
    because they were meant
    to be used as decoration.
[08:17] Kana
    His judgment was wonderful!
[08:19] Kana
    Seventy-nine male poets!
[08:21] Kana
    Twenty-one female poets!
[08:23] Kana
    I paid particular attention
    to the poems by the women!
[08:27] Kana
    You can feel the seasons
    and modesty in a way
[08:30] ---
    that can't be found in modern poetry!
[08:34] Kana
    The beauty in each word
[08:35] ---
    is just as fresh as it
    was a thousand years ago!
[08:40] Kana
    I still haven't found the words
[08:42] ---
    to express the rush of
    emotion they bring me!
[08:43] Chihaya
    R-Right!
[08:44] Chihaya
    So!
[08:45] Chihaya
    Do you like competitive karuta?
[08:50] Kana
    Do you wear hakama?
[08:52] Chihaya
    Hakama?
[08:54] Chihaya
    I've never worn one before.
[08:56] Chihaya
    You haven't either, Taichi?
[08:57] Taichi
    Huh? Yeah...
[09:00] Taichi
    Most people don't wear them.
[09:02] Kana
    Why?!
[09:05] Kana
    Only members of the imperial
    court dabble in poetry!
[09:07] Kana
    I wouldn't expect you
    to wear junihitoe,
[09:08] Kana
    but you should at least wear a hakama!
[09:10] Kana
    The kendo club and
    archery club require hakama!
[09:14] Chihaya
    Wh—
[09:16] Chihaya
    Why don't we wear them?
[09:17] Chihaya
    Because they're expensive?
[09:20] Taichi
    It's a lot of effort to wear one.
[09:30] Kana
    My family has owned a traditional
    clothing shop for many generations.
[09:34] Kana
    I love kimono.
[09:36] ---
    I want everyone to understand
    how wonderful they are,
[09:39] Kana
    but we can only sell cheap yukatas...
[09:41] Kana
    Our business is so bad that
[09:43] Kana
    we can't even afford a model
    for next year's catalog!
[09:59] Kana
    If I won't be able to wear a hakama,
[10:02] ---
    I might as well stay
    in the archery club.
[10:05] Kana
    I apologize for interrupting you.
[10:11] Taichi
    Her love of karuta is
    completely different.
[10:15] Taichi
    We don't even pay any attention
    to the poems anymore.
[10:18] Taichi
    You probably don't know the
    meaning of most of them.
[10:22] Taichi
    She isn't cut out to play
    competitive karuta.
[10:38] Person A
    She's so adorable.
[10:40] Person B
    Hey, look.
[10:40] Person C
    There she is!
[10:43] Chihaya
    Wow, you read really hard books.
[10:45] Kana
    A-Ayase-san!
[10:51] Chihaya
    I asked one of the girls
    in the archery club.
[10:53] Chihaya
    Your name is Oe Kanade, right?
[10:56] Chihaya
    So you're Kana.
[10:58] Chihaya
    You like karuta, right?
[11:01] Chihaya
    Let's play karuta together.
SIGN    Yamamori Masao Higashiyama Culture and Modern Japan
[11:03] Kana
    My love for karuta is fundamentally
    different from yours.
[11:07] Kana
    I'm not interested in a
    sport with no emotion.
[11:10] Chihaya
    But Kana-chan, I'm also...
[11:13] Kana
    If you'll excuse me...
[11:14] Chihaya
    Huh?
[11:15] Chihaya
    Kana-chan?
[11:26] Teacher
    The first collection of laws,
[11:28] ---
    the Omi code, was created at
    the order of Emperor Tenji.
[11:32] Teacher
    In 670, there was a national
    census released as the Kogo...
[11:40] Chihaya
    Kana-chan!
[11:43] Chihaya
    Hey, why don't you come watch us play?
[11:45] Kana
    I have archery practice.
[11:47] Chihaya
    Wait, Kana-chan!
[11:49] Chihaya
    Taichi...
[11:50] Taichi
    There's no point in pestering
    someone who doesn't want to join.
[11:54] Chihaya
    But she loves karuta so much...
[11:57] Taichi
    Like I said yesterday,
[11:59] Taichi
    she's not cut out for it.
SIGN    Oe Traditional Clothing
[12:32] Mom
    Kanade, I'm going to a
    neighborhood meeting,
[12:36] ---
    so watch the store for me.
[12:37] Kana
    Okay!
SIGN    Explanation for Ogura Hundred Poets
[12:44] [POEM] Kana
    Would the mountain cherry
    blossoms return my affection,
[12:50] [POEM] Kana
    for there is no one else out here
[13:19] Kana
    Ayase-san.
[13:21] Chihaya
    It's beautiful.
[13:23] Chihaya
    I'm starting to understand
    why you like kimono.
[13:28] Kana
    Is this about the karuta club again?
[13:30] Chihaya
    Hmm?
[13:32] Chihaya
    Well, you seem to like karuta.
[13:34] Kana
    As I said earlier,
[13:36] Kana
    my love is fundamentally
    different from yours.
[13:40] Chihaya
    But I also have a poem I really love.
[13:45] Chihaya
    Impassionate gods have never seen
[13:49] Chihaya
    the red that is the Tatsuta River
[13:52] Chihaya
    I even know what it means.
[13:54] Chihaya
    It's talking about how the
    Tatsuta River is so beautiful
[13:56] ---
    when it's completely red.
[13:59] Chihaya
    I read it in a book.
[14:01] Chihaya
    It must look something like this.
[14:12] Kana
    Classic poetry becomes fascinating when
[14:14] ---
    you know the history behind each poem.
[14:16] Chihaya
    Huh?
[14:17] Kana
    I believe that this poem
    is about passionate love.
[14:22] Chihaya
    Huh? Love?
[14:24] Chihaya
    It's not about scenery?!
[14:26] Kana
    That would be the universal
    interpretation,
[14:29] Kana
    but did you know that
    Nijo no Kisaki was in love
[14:31] ---
    with Ariwara no Narihira
    before she married the emperor?
SIGN    This is a very
     famous
     story.
[14:36] Chihaya
    N-No...
[14:41] Kana
    This poem was displayed on a
    folding screen in the palace.
[14:46] Kana
    Some accounts say that Nijo no Kisaki
    was the one who requested the poem.
[14:50] Kana
    I like how Narihira concealed his
    passion for her in a scenic rendering
[14:55] Kana
    since he wasn't able
    to forget about her.
[15:00] Kana
    "Impassionate" is a decorative word
    for gods that implies great force.
[15:12] Kana
    The red river can be interpreted
    as an autumn scene or a suicide,
[15:18] Kana
    but I believe that the crimson leaves
    represent a love that never faded.
SIGN    the red that is the Tatsuta River
[15:25] Kana
    When you look at it that way,
    the card with its black letters
[15:29] ---
    becomes deep red,
    don't you think?
[15:42] Chihaya
    Incredible...
[15:44] Kana
    Huh?
[15:45] Chihaya
    Incredible!
[15:45] Chihaya
    Incredible!
[15:46] Chihaya
    Incredible! Incredible! Incredible!
[15:48] Chihaya
    Teach me more, Kana-chan!
[15:50] Kana
    Huh?
[15:52] Chihaya
    Starting from The Autumn Paddy!
[15:53] Kana
    Huh?
[15:54] Kana
    All one hundred poems?
[15:56] Chihaya
    Uh-huh!
[16:01] Kana
    This poem is supposed to have
    been written by Emperor Tenji.
[16:04] Chihaya
    Huh? It wasn't?
[16:06] Kana
    Yes, it's believed that this was
[16:09] ---
    edited from an anonymous poem
[16:11] ---
    in the Collection of
    Ten Thousand Leaves.
[16:14] Chihaya
    Oh...
[16:15] Kana
    Fujiwara no Teika, the person
    who compiled the Hundred Poets,
[16:19] ---
    would have known that...
[16:21] [POEM] Kana
    The autumn paddy shacks
    have rough thatching
[16:27] [POEM] Kana
    as my sleeves are wet with dew
[16:31] Kana
    A "paddy shack" is a small
    cabin for farmers.
[16:33] Kana
    When the farmers rest under the
    rough roof of sedge and straw,
[16:36] Kana
    they wake up to discover that
    their sleeves are wet with dew.
[16:39] Kana
    So Fujiwara no Teika may
     have started with this poem
[16:42] ---
    to convey the idea of an ideal emperor
[16:45] ---
    who understood the hard
    work of the farmers.
[16:49] Chihaya
    Oh...
[16:51] Chihaya
    Next one!
[16:52] Chihaya
    So spring ends please!
[16:54] Kana
    In the past, when people
    unpacked their winter clothes,
[16:57] ---
    they would hang their
    summer clothes out to dry.
[17:00] Kana
    The green mountains
    and white clothes...
[17:01] Kana
    There is only a brief pause
    between the verses...
[17:05] Kana
    As the slightest breeze will make
    the slender bamboo shake...
[17:09] Kana
    Mugwort was used for moxibustion.
[17:14] Chihaya
    Oh! Hence the burning feelings part!
SIGN    When I must hide
    mugwort = moxibustion
[17:18] Chihaya
    I never knew...
[17:19] Kana
    The false rooster's crow
    is an expression from
[17:21] Chihaya
    I never knew!
[17:22] ---
    the Records of the Grand Historian.
[17:24] Kana
    Here, shadow actually means light. So the moonlight is...
[17:25] Chihaya
    There is a rich and colorful world behind each card!
[17:29] Kana
    Here, the autumn scenery
    is green instead of red,
[17:32] ---
    which means these are evergreens...
[17:40] Chihaya
    I never knew!
[17:44] Chihaya
    I had no idea!
SIGN    Yamamori Masao
    Higashiyama Culture and Modern Japan
SIGN    Yamamori Masao
    Higashiyama Culture and Modern Japan
[18:01] (Flashback) Person A
    She's always reading
    old books by herself.
[18:04] (Flashback) Person B
    A classical literature geek?
[18:06] (Flashback) Person B
    She was born in the wrong age.
SIGN    Explanation for Ogura Hundred Poets
[18:10] (Flashback) Chihaya
    Teach me, Kana-chan!
[18:13] (Flashback) Chihaya
    Teach me more!
[18:15] [POEM] Reader
    Naniwa Bay, now the flower
    blooms, but for winter
[18:24] [POEM] Reader
    Here comes spring,
     now the flower blooms
[18:33] [POEM] Reader
    Like the sound of someone
    knocking on my door...
[18:38] [POEM] Reader
    The night was young...
[18:40] [POEM] Reader
    Though I prayed
[18:42] Chihaya
    Before, I only recognized
    the cards by sound...
[18:47] Chihaya
    but you can also recognize
    them by their meaning!
[18:51] Chihaya
    Look!
[18:53] ---
    Every card is a different color!
[18:58] Chihaya
    I win!
[19:00] Taichi
    Oh, man...
[19:01] Taichi
    You're on a roll today.
[19:03] Taichi
    Have you been doing
    drills or something?
[19:13] Chihaya
    Kana-chan.
[19:20] Chihaya
    The person who taught me karuta
[19:22] ---
    said that I should become
    friends with the cards.
[19:28] Chihaya
    You're already friends with
    all one hundred cards.
[19:31] Chihaya
    You can become strong.
[19:35] Kana
    O-On one condition...
[19:38] Person A
    Okay! Relax and smile!
[19:44] Chihaya
    P-Promise?
[19:47] Chihaya
    Promise that you'll
    join the karuta club?
[19:51] Chihaya
    No changing your mind!
[19:55] Kana
    And during matches,
    we all have to wear hakama.
[19:58] Chihaya
    Wh-What if we don't have one?
[20:00] Kana
    We can rent them.
[20:02] Chihaya
    Wait, stop!
[20:06] Kana
    But why were you trying
    so hard to recruit me?
[20:10] Kana
    You don't need other
    people to play karuta.
[20:16] Taichi
    Well, I guess we can practice.
[20:18] Taichi
    We can start with how
    to place the cards...
[20:20] Kana
    First, can we do
    something about this room?
[20:22] Taichi
    Huh?
[20:27] [POEM] Kana
    A house left to the weeds...
[20:31] Kana
    As I said the other day,
[20:33] ---
    only members of the imperial
    court dabble in poetry.
[20:36] Kana
    This dusty room is not
    appropriate for-
[20:37] Chihaya
    Okay, let's!
[20:39] Taichi
    Can't we just keep the
    tatami mats clean?
[20:41] Chihaya
    Okay, let's go borrow
    the cleaning stuff.
[20:44] Kana
    Yes!
[20:45] Chihaya
    Come on!
    Hurry up, Taichi!
[20:47] Taichi
    Yeah, yeah...
[20:51] Chihaya
    I want to play karuta
    with Arata again.
[20:55] Chihaya
    I want him to know
    that karuta is fun...
[20:58] Chihaya
    That it's fun when you're with friends.
[21:08] Taichi
    Then we'll start with
    how to place the cards.
[21:11] Kana
    Yes!
[21:13] Chihaya
    Our new friend, Kana-chan
    taught me something new.
[21:18] Chihaya
    Chihaya furu is a poem
    about deep red love!