# E3 - Rice Planting Song
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**[00:03] Tauemon**
First you let the unhulled
rice absorb water, like this.
**[00:07] Sakuna**
And then you sow it in the field, right?
**[00:10] Tauemon**
No.
**[00:11] Tauemon**
If you wait a while, the unhulled
rice will begin to sprout.
**[00:15] Sakuna**
And then you sow it in the field, right?
**[00:17] Tauemon**
No.
**[00:19] Tauemon**
They'd be overwhelmed by weeds,
**[00:22] Tauemon**
so you let them grow in a seed bed first.
**[00:26] Sakuna**
This sounds like a pain in the rear.
**[00:29] Sakuna**
Isn't there any kind of rice that
can be grown and harvested in a flash?
**[00:33] Tauemon**
Unfortunately, no.
**[00:35] Tama**
Your Highness, that's just
how growing rice works.
**[00:39] Tama**
You spend your time
sweating as you face the
**[00:41] Tama**
silent rice plants day after day,
watching them grow.
**[00:46] Sakuna**
Why do you seem so happy?
**[00:49] Tama**
Because you're finally fulfilling
your true duties as a harvest goddess.
**[00:54] Tama**
What could be better than that?
**[00:58] Sakuna**
Well, it doesn't make me happy at all.
**[01:05] Sakuna**
I guess I'll give it a shot.
***SIGN*** Episode 3
Rice Planting Song
**[02:47] Sakuna**
It's soft. That should be good enough.
**[02:51] Tama**
Your Highness,
there's still some left over here.
**[02:55] Kinta**
And you haven't touched this area yet.
**[02:57] Sakuna**
Shut up!
**[02:58] Sakuna**
Don't just stand there. You do it.
**[03:01] Sakuna**
I'm making rice so we can all eat.
**[03:04] Kinta**
We don't have a choice.
That's the only hoe we have.
**[03:09] Sakuna**
I know.
**[03:10] Sakuna**
In that case, let's take
turns every 30 minutes.
**[03:14] Yui**
I've never held a hoe before.
**[03:16] Myrthe**
It is very difficult.
**[03:19] Tauemon**
In that case, I'll do it.
**[03:23] Tama**
Your Highness,
**[03:24] Tama**
this is the time for you to fulfill
your duties as a harvest goddess.
**[03:30] Sakuna**
Fine, fine!
**[03:42] Myrthe**
Did the sprouts grow?
**[03:45] Tauemon**
We should be able to plant them soon.
**[03:48] Tauemon**
Yes, I see.
**[03:51] Tauemon**
Lady Sakuna!
**[03:53] Sakuna**
What is it?
**[03:54] Tauemon**
When you're finished with that,
**[03:56] Tauemon**
I'd like to discuss
making fertilizer with you.
**[04:00] Sakuna**
Fertilizer?
**[04:01] Tama**
In simple terms, it's nutrients
that we can spread in this field.
**[04:05] Tama**
However, that's not all...
**[04:09] Tama**
In order to help plants take root in spring,
**[04:14] Tama**
over the winter,
**[04:15] Tama**
we grow plants such as milk vetch that
will provide the soil with nutrients.
**[04:19] Tauemon**
In spring, we'll mix them into the soil to
increase its fertility, helping the rice grow.
**[04:27] Tama**
When you grow and what you spread impacts
the quality and flavor of the rice.
**[04:34] Sakuna**
I see.
**[04:36] Sakuna**
So, how is it made?
**[04:39] Tama**
Normally you'd use cow or horse manure,
but we don't have any here, so...
**[04:47] Sakuna**
So?
**[04:50] Sakuna**
You can't be serious...
**[04:52] Kinta**
Pee-yoo.
**[04:53] Myrthe**
No, stop! Very bad! You will fall!
**[04:58] Sakuna**
You want me to spread this?
**[05:00] Tauemon**
No, this will just serve as the base.
**[05:04] Tauemon**
We'll move this next
to the field over there,
**[05:07] Tauemon**
add the necessary materials,
and let it rest to make fertilizer.
**[05:11] Kinta**
I found this thing.
**[05:15] Sakuna**
You don't mean...
**[05:16] Tama**
Come, Your Highness.
**[05:18] Tama**
It's time to make your
first batch of fertilizer.
**[05:22] Sakuna**
Wait, no! I'm not doing this!
**[05:25] Sakuna**
I know, you! It's time you did some work!
**[05:29] Kinta**
I'm not doing a stinky job like that.
**[05:31] Kinta**
Besides, I made a living making handicrafts,
so I'm not suited to field work.
**[05:37] Tama**
And Yui and Myrthe are girls.
**[05:41] Tama**
They couldn't do something
as labor intensive as this.
**[05:44] Sakuna**
Hey! I'm a girl, too!
**[05:47] Tama**
But you're a goddess.
**[05:49] Sakuna**
It's always goddess this, goddess that.
**[05:54] Tauemon**
I'll handle it.
**[05:57] Kinta**
You?
**[05:58] Yui**
Can you do it?
**[06:01] Tauemon**
It's just using this bucket
to move that over there.
**[06:05] Tauemon**
I may be clumsy, but I can handle it.
**[06:10] Sakuna**
I suppose you could manage this much.
**[06:14] Tauemon**
Then have yourself some tea
and rest a while.
**[06:25] Myrthe**
It is coarse tea.
**[06:28] Sakuna**
I see.
**[06:31] Sakuna**
It really doesn't taste like anything.
**[06:35] Sakuna**
What are you laughing about?
**[06:37] Myrthe**
I learned a Yanato greeting.
**[06:41] Sakuna**
Coarse tea isn't a greeting, you know.
**[06:43] Yui**
Will he really be all right?
**[06:45] Kinta**
He's massive.
**[06:48] Kinta**
I'm sure he can handle
a bit of physical labor.
**[06:54] Tauemon**
I spilled it all!
**[07:02] Tauemon**
Lady Sakuna! Lady Sakuna!
**[07:04] Sakuna**
Don't come in!
**[07:06] Tauemon**
I stink all over! I don't know what to do!
**[07:08] Sakuna**
To the river! Go to the river
and wash it off!
**[07:12] Tauemon**
But... but I need something
to wipe it with!
**[07:16] Myrthe**
Will someone take this to him?
**[07:23] Sakuna**
In the end, I have to do everything.
**[07:27] Tama**
I'm proud of you.
**[07:29] Kinta**
You're the one who lost
at rock-paper-scissors.
**[07:31] Sakuna**
Oh, shut up!
**[07:33] Yui**
Is there something bothering you?
**[07:37] Kinta**
I told you to stay away from me.
**[07:41] Sakuna**
Honestly...
**[07:43] Sakuna**
Tama, a little more to the right.
My back is killing me.
**[07:48] Tama**
Very well.
**[07:51] Myrthe**
Excuse me, Sakuna...
**[07:57] Sakuna**
Did you mess up again?
**[08:00] Myrthe**
Yanato ingredients are challenging.
**[08:03] Tama**
It seems we've used up the meat we had.
**[08:07] Tama**
Once you're done planting,
you'll have to go hunting again.
**[08:11] Sakuna**
You want me to hunt on top
of everything else I'm doing?
**[08:14] Kinta**
All the adults here are useless.
**[08:18] Kinta**
They can't cook, and they
can't handle manual labor.
**[08:21] Kinta**
They can't do anything.
**[08:24] Sakuna**
Then don't eat!
**[08:25] Kinta**
What?
**[08:26] Sakuna**
You haven't done anything
since you got here.
**[08:30] Sakuna**
You have no right to complain.
**[08:34] Kinta**
I'm just not forcing myself
to do what I can't.
**[08:38] Kinta**
If I did, I'd end up causing
problems like these guys.
**[08:44] Sakuna**
Looks like I'll have to
teach him a lesson.
**[08:51] Tauemon**
My sincerest apologies!
**[08:53] Tauemon**
It's because I'm so useless!
**[08:57] Sakuna**
Stop crying!
**[09:05] Sakuna**
Ouch...
**[09:09] Sakuna**
Kokorowa.
**[09:12] (Flashback) Sakuna**
Kokorowa, I was moved by this chapter
in *Unrequited Love Story*.
**[09:17] (Flashback) Sakuna**
Whoever wrote this must be a genius.
**[09:23] Sakuna**
It sure was fun in the capital.
**[09:35] Ashigumo**
I see.
**[09:37] Tauemon**
I know I'm asking for a lot, but...
**[09:43] Ashigumo**
I'll consider it.
**[09:56] Tauemon**
By adding water, leveling the soil,
**[10:00] Tauemon**
and plowing and irrigating the field,
it is prepared for planting.
**[10:06] Yui**
It's starting to look like a rice field.
**[10:08] Sakuna**
Finally.
**[10:10] Sakuna**
Anyway, it sure is beautiful.
**[10:12] Sakuna**
Of course it is, since I plowed it myself.
**[10:14] Tauemon**
Lady Sakuna.
**[10:18] Tauemon**
These are the young sprouts.
**[10:22] Sakuna**
They've grown so much.
**[10:24] Tama**
Your Highness, you should
plant the first sprout.
**[10:28] Sakuna**
Okay.
**[10:38] Sakuna**
It's so soft.
**[10:40] Sakuna**
I feel a faint warmth, too.
**[10:43] Tama**
That is the rice field.
You are a harvest goddess.
**[10:47] Tama**
You must be attuned
to the power of the soil.
**[10:52] Sakuna**
Should I just stick it in there?
**[10:55] Tauemon**
It says to grasp it in three fingers
like you're holding a brush.
**[11:01] Sakuna**
Like holding a brush.
**[11:03] Sakuna**
Like this?
**[11:04] Tauemon**
Now plant it not too shallow
and not too deep.
**[11:07] Tauemon**
About two knuckles deep into the soil.
**[11:12] Sakuna**
Let's see. Like this?
**[11:17] Sakuna**
It's falling over.
**[11:19] Tauemon**
Sprouts often fall over in soft soil that
has been recently plowed and irrigated.
**[11:24] Tauemon**
Being careful not to make too big
a hole in the ground with your fist...
**[11:28] Sakuna**
This sounds difficult.
**[11:31] Tauemon**
Finally, gently pull your hand
forward so it gets caught in the soil.
**[11:36] Tauemon**
That's what it says.
**[11:37] Sakuna**
Gently pull forward...
**[11:47] Tama**
Your Highness, that is the plant
that will become rice.
**[11:51] Tama**
The crop grown by harvest gods
that is the heart of Yanato.
**[11:57] Sakuna**
This is rice, huh?
**[11:59] Tama**
Rice is special to harvest gods.
**[12:02] Tama**
Eating it will surely
grant you even more power.
**[12:09] Sakuna**
Power...
**[12:10] Tama**
Greater divine power.
**[12:13] Tama**
Your life energy.
**[12:15] Tama**
More power should aid you in battles
against demons and with your mission.
**[12:22] Sakuna**
Really?
**[12:23] Sakuna**
Then we could return to the capital.
**[12:25] Tama**
Eventually.
**[12:26] Sakuna**
Okay, let's do this!
**[12:28] Sakuna**
Once these are grown,
we can fill our bellies with rice!
**[12:33] Tauemon**
Fill our bellies?
**[12:35] Kinta**
This little bit of rice isn't
nearly enough for a glutton like you.
**[12:39] Tauemon**
That's not what I meant.
**[12:43] Tauemon**
Never mind.
***SIGN*** Planting
Rice seeds are planted in the seedling bed and grown
until they are large enough to be transferred to the field.
Because so much manpower is required in the spring,
large numbers of people get together to plant the rice all
at once. Groups such as these that helped one another
were called “yui.” The perennial failure Tauemon had
been secretly practicing so he could help with farming.
**[12:47] Sign**
m 0 0 l 310 0 310 150 0 150
**[12:55] Sakuna**
Hey! I'm back!
**[13:02] Sakuna**
What are you doing?
**[13:03] Tauemon**
Ah, Lady Sakuna. Welcome back.
**[13:06] Tauemon**
Weeds have started sprouting,
so I thought I'd remove them.
**[13:12] Sakuna**
What are you doing?
**[13:13] Sakuna**
Is the rice all right?
**[13:15] Tauemon**
Yes, barely...
**[13:18] Sakuna**
Honestly.
**[13:20] Sakuna**
You can stop now. I'll do it.
**[13:23] Sakuna**
So, where are these weeds?
**[13:25] Yui**
There and there.
**[13:28] Sakuna**
But it's only been a few days!
**[13:31] Sakuna**
How are there so many?
**[13:33] Tama**
It's because there are so
many nutrients in the soil.
**[13:37] Tama**
All kinds of vegetation grow well in it.
**[13:40] Tama**
It's important to regularly remove them
so the nutrients go to the rice.
**[13:46] Sakuna**
What a pain in the rear.
**[13:50] Sakuna**
Is this it?
**[13:52] Sakuna**
And...
**[13:54] Myrthe**
Sakuna.
**[13:55] Sakuna**
Ah, Myrthe.
**[13:57] Sakuna**
I brought venison.
**[13:59] Sakuna**
We're feasting on venison tonight.
**[14:05] Sakuna**
What's this?
**[14:06] Tauemon**
Tekusari dumplings.
**[14:09] Tauemon**
In my land, we called
them red spider lilies.
**[14:13] Tauemon**
Though they're poisonous,
**[14:14] Tauemon**
you can eat them if you grind up
the roots and add them to water.
**[14:19] Sakuna**
What about the venison?
**[14:21] Myrthe**
I am sorry...
**[14:23] Tauemon**
Kaimaru started crying.
**[14:25] Tauemon**
The venison burned
while she was comforting him.
**[14:29] Sakuna**
So you wasted the venison I brought back?
**[14:33] Sakuna**
And now we're supposed to
eat these poisonous dumplings?
**[14:37] Myrthe**
Poison dumplings...
**[14:39] Yui**
I like these.
**[14:41] Sakuna**
That's not the point!
**[14:43] Tama**
Your Highness!
**[14:48] Sakuna**
Next time you need help, let me know.
**[14:56] Tauemon**
Where are you going?
**[15:02] Sakuna**
It's just until the rice is ready.
**[15:06] Sakuna**
Just standing hurts.
**[15:17] Sakuna**
Beware of spindly growth.
**[15:20] Sakuna**
What's spindly growth?
**[15:23] Sakuna**
What is it?
**[15:25] Tauemon**
Lady Sakuna,
there's something I have to tell you.
**[15:29] Sakuna**
Don't bother apologizing.
**[15:31] Sakuna**
No amount of apologies will fill my stomach.
**[15:33] Sakuna**
More importantly—
**[15:34] Tauemon**
It's actually about that.
**[15:36] Sakuna**
About what?
**[15:38] Tama**
Your Highness,
**[15:39] Tama**
do you think you'll grow enough
rice this year to fill your stomach?
**[15:44] Sakuna**
Are you saying we won't?
**[15:46] Tama**
I knew it.
**[15:48] Sakuna**
What does that mean?
**[15:50] Tauemon**
Even if we grow and
harvest all the plants here,
**[15:55] Tauemon**
we'll only have enough
rice for a few days.
**[15:59] Sakuna**
What?
**[16:00] Tama**
And the quality is still low, too.
**[16:03] Tama**
I doubt this rice has the power
to grant you much strength.
**[16:10] Sakuna**
That's not what you promised!
**[16:12] Sakuna**
Didn't you say I'd get to
fill my belly with rice?
**[16:14] Sakuna**
Didn't you say the rice
would make me strong?
**[16:18] Sakuna**
You lied to me!
**[16:20] Tama**
It will eventually.
**[16:23] Tauemon**
That's what I meant, too.
**[16:28] Sakuna**
How many years will it take?
**[16:30] Sakuna**
How many years until I can fill my
belly with high-quality rice?
**[16:33] Sakuna**
Two? Three?
**[16:36] Tauemon**
Well...
**[16:39] Tama**
It takes many years to gradually
develop and improve rice.
**[16:47] Tama**
It can't be done overnight.
**[16:50] Sakuna**
I'm asking how many years!
**[16:53] Tauemon**
Probably at least ten...
**[16:57] Tama**
Your Highness!
**[16:59] Sakuna**
I've had enough.
**[17:01] Sakuna**
I haven't been lazy!
**[17:03] Sakuna**
I bit back my anger, ran myself ragged,
**[17:05] Sakuna**
and endured an empty
stomach like you told me to!
**[17:09] Sakuna**
And this is what I get for it?
**[17:10] Tama**
No, wait. That wasn't my intention when—
**[17:13] Sakuna**
Silence!
**[17:16] Tama**
Your Highness!
**[17:19] Yui**
What's going on?
**[17:21] Sakuna**
I've had enough!
**[17:23] Sakuna**
Everyone's ganging up on me
to make me suffer!
**[17:27] Sakuna**
Well, I can't take it anymore.
**[17:29] Sakuna**
I'm going back to the capital so
I can sprawl out in my spacious room.
**[17:35] Sakuna**
I don't care about the mission.
**[17:36] Sakuna**
I don't care about anything!
**[17:38] Sakuna**
I don't care, I don't care, I don't care!
**[17:49] Sakuna**
I thought I was going to die...
**[17:52] Sakuna**
I had no idea the rough sea
was so terrifying at night.
**[17:56] Sakuna**
I'd never reach the capital.
**[18:07] Tauemon**
Lady Sakuna! Lady Sakuna!
**[18:13] Tauemon**
There you are.
**[18:20] Kinta**
Here.
**[18:21] Yui**
From me, too.
**[18:26] Sakuna**
What's this?
**[18:27] Sakuna**
They're clean.
**[18:30] Kinta**
I told you, I used to make handicrafts.
**[18:34] Kinta**
That's the best I can do
since I lack materials, though.
**[18:38] Yui**
And I could make all sorts
of things with a loom,
**[18:42] Yui**
but for now, that's all I can do.
**[18:45] Sakuna**
When did you make these?
**[18:49] Myrthe**
I smoked the burnt venison.
**[18:53] Myrthe**
It is a good way to preserve food.
**[18:58] Tama**
And that's not all.
**[19:05] Sakuna**
What's this?
**[19:06] Tauemon**
A rice paddy the Ashigumo once
cleared with Lady Toyohana.
**[19:11] Tauemon**
I spoke with the Ashigumo,
and they said we could use it.
**[19:17] Sakuna**
But what about unhulled rice?
**[19:19] Sakuna**
We only had the ones we planted, right?
**[19:22] Tauemon**
The Ashigumo agreed
to share some of theirs, too.
**[19:28] Tauemon**
If we can harvest this entire field,
it will yield a substantial amount of rice.
**[19:33] Sakuna**
Why didn't you say something sooner?
**[19:37] Tauemon**
I thought I might disappoint
you by ruining everything again.
**[19:44] Tama**
They didn't want to say anything
until they were finished.
**[19:50] Sakuna**
Humans shouldn't be
so considerate of a god.
**[19:59] Sakuna**
Come on. Let's start planting.
**[20:07] Sakuna**
I know what I said, but...
**[20:10] Sakuna**
This field is huge. This is taking forever.
**[20:18] Myrthe**
My back hurts.
**[20:29] Yui**
Quit it, Kaimaru! Go away!
**[20:32] Kinta**
And I keep telling you to stay away from me.
**[20:35] Sakuna**
No more. I still have to hunt, too.
**[20:39] Sakuna**
You handle the rest.
**[20:41] Kinta**
Don't be ridiculous!
**[20:42] Kinta**
Who do you think tilled this field?
**[20:45] Sakuna**
What was that?
**[20:50] Yui**
Quiet! I told you to go away!
**[20:53] Myrthe**
Don't fight. Let's have fun planting.
**[20:59] Myrthe**
Stop that!
**[21:01] Tauemon**
Weak roots and weak hearts.
**[21:13] Tauemon**
Sink your legs into the mud
and bend your back.
**[21:27] Sakuna**
What was that?
**[21:29] Kinta**
A rice planting song.
**[21:31] Tauemon**
That's right.
**[21:32] Tauemon**
It's a long, hard road
to happiness when farming.
**[21:38] Tauemon**
Conversation leads to discontent
and demotivates you.
**[21:42] Tama**
So our predecessors decided to sing instead.
**[21:46] Tama**
Singing distracts you from the pain.
**[21:49] Tauemon**
Thin sprouts and thin bodies.
**[22:00] Kinta**
That's a surprise.
**[22:02] Kinta**
We were born in different places,
but we sing the same song.
**[22:07] Kinta**
The next line is...
**[22:09] Kinta**
With empty stomachs we wish
for golden fields.
**[22:19] Sauna**
I see.
**[22:20] Myrthe**
It's a good song.
**[22:23] Tauemon**
Care to join us, Lady Sakuna?
**[22:28] Sakuna**
Fine. At this point, why not?
**[22:31] Tauemon**
All together now.
**[22:34] All**
Plant the seedlings, let them take root
**[22:45] All**
Weak roots and weak hearts
**[22:57] All**
Sink your legs into the mud
and bend your back
**[23:09] All**
Thin sprouts and thin bodies
**[23:21] All**
With empty stomachs we wish
for golden fields
**[23:33] All**
Plant the seedlings, let them take root
**[23:45] All**
Growing stems and miserable fortunes
**[23:57] All**
Don't lean against the ridges
and stand in the sunlight
***SIGN*** Next Time
Episode 4