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Come, Jinnai.
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Look who's talking.
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When your Yuki died,
I wondered how you would ever manage.
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But look at you.
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You're a perfect example
of the kite begetting a hawk.
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Kite begetting a hawk?
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You were the widower kite,
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doting so on your child
in every aspect of his upbringing,
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that lo and behold,
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the child grew not into a kite
but a magnificent young hawk.
:42:32
Nonsense.
:42:34
He certainly keeps growing,
but he's got a long way to go
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before you can compare him
to a young hawk soaring freely overhead.
:42:43
You know,
:42:45
I never figured either of us would be good
for anything but battlefield laurels,
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but we haven't done too bad
at raising children.
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Had life gone on like that,
all would have been well.
:43:07
But it was not to be.
:43:12
When all is said and done,
:43:15
our lives are like houses
built on foundations of sand.
:43:19
One strong wind and all is gone.
:43:25
How my master's house
with its 498,000-koku domain
:43:30
was brought to ruin...
:43:33
I'm sure you already know
even better than I do myself.
:43:40
Owing to an unreasonable and one-sided
judgment by the Tokugawa shogunate
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regarding the repairs
being performed on Hiroshima Castle,
:43:49
in June of 1619,
:43:52
my master, Masanori Fukushima,
was ordered into exile at Kawanakajima,
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leaving his 12,000 retainers
without any means of livelihood...