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the Castle Warden, Lord Hori
has asked the shogun...
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...for permission to adopt
His Lordship's third boy, tadaatsu...
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...and seize control himself
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If that happens the clan will split
and blood will wash away blood
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I might not come through this
unscathed myself
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so if you could give me an answer
before I leave for Edo
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All right
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I'll answer you
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I'm very grateful to tomoe for
all she's done for my daughters...
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...all the cooking and sewing
and everything else
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It's like a dream come true
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However...
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...having her come to my house
as my wife is something else again
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she's a daughter of the linumas
a 400-koku family
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she doesn't know what life is like
for a 50-koku petty samurai
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Are you sure you're not
under-estimating her?
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she's very much her own woman
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It'd be fine at the start
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But when it sunk in that 50-koku
would be her life forever...
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...she'd be sorry
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My late wife was