2:03:01
Finally Miss tomoe
became our mother
2:03:07
My father was happy
2:03:14
But peace prevailed in our house
for less than three years
2:03:23
With the Meiji Restoration
came civil war
2:03:27
Our clan supported
the former shogun...
2:03:31
...and fought as rebels
against the emperor's government
2:03:38
During this 'Boshin War'.
2:03:41
...my father was shot
and killed
2:04:09
tomoe took us, her step-daughters
to Edo, now 'tokyo'...
2:04:16
...and supported us
until we were both married
2:04:22
Now she sleeps with my father
beneath this stone
2:04:31
In the new Meiji era, many men
who had worked with my father...
2:04:38
...rose to positions
of great authority
2:04:44
I often heard them say...
2:04:47
...that 'twilight seibei
was an unlucky man.'
2:04:51
But I do not agree
2:04:58
My father had no desire
to rise in the world...