00:00:01,210 --> 00:00:06,"Little Forest" is divided into 4 parts.
Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring.

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00:00:54,380 --> 00:00:55,You've g***t mail!

00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:56,Coming!

00:00:59,610 --> 00:01:00,Good morning.

00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:02,- It sure's chilly.
- Yeah, it's getting cold.

00:01:02,601 --> 00:01:05,I heard that it'll snow sometime at noon.

00:01:05,020 --> 00:01:06,Oh.

00:01:06,820 --> 00:01:08,It's all bills again?

00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:10,There's one letter there.

00:01:10,780 --> 00:01:12,Oh.

00:01:13,820 --> 00:01:14,See you.

00:01:19,490 --> 00:01:22,A letter from Mom came during autumn.

00:02:15,923 --> 00:02:21,Komori is a small settlement in a village
somewhere in the Tohoku region.

00:02:22,130 --> 00:02:23,There aren't any stores here,

00:02:24,170 --> 00:02:28,but if you have a little shopping to do,
there's a small farmer's co-op supermarket

00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:31,and some other stores in the the village
center, where the town hall is.

00:02:32,810 --> 00:02:36,The way there is mostly downhill,
so that takes about 30 minutes,

00:02:37,690 --> 00:02:39,but I'm not too sure how long
the trip back takes.

00:02:40,980 --> 00:02:43,During winter, you have to go
on foot because of the snow,

00:02:43,820 --> 00:02:46,so that'll take you something
like a good hour and a half.

00:02:48,110 --> 00:02:50,But it seems that most people

00:02:50,050 --> 00:02:54,do their shopping at places like the big
suburban supermarket in a neighboring city.

00:02:55,500 --> 00:02:59,When I decide to go there, it nearly
ends up taking the whole day.

00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:03,Today is Christmas.

00:04:05,730 --> 00:04:09,Speaking of Christmas, because my mother
makes a fuss over details,

00:04:10,150 --> 00:04:12,so we never celebrated it once.

00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:17,Mommy, let's celebrate Christmas!

00:04:18,330 --> 00:04:20,We are not Christians so what for?

00:04:21,710 --> 00:04:22,How selfish!

00:04:28,340 --> 00:04:30,Selfish! Selfish! Selfish!

00:04:32,300 --> 00:04:33,But nevertheless, when I was small,

00:04:34,390 --> 00:04:37,we would always have guests around this season.

00:04:38,140 --> 00:04:40,And she would make cake.

00:04:48,110 --> 00:04:49,Coming!

00:04:54,030 --> 00:04:55,- Hi.
- Hello.

00:04:55,660 --> 00:04:56,Come in.

00:05:01,410 --> 00:05:02,Why, hello there!

00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:03,Where are your manners?

00:05:04,130 --> 00:05:06,He used to take care of me a long time ago.

00:05:07,250 --> 00:05:08,Hello.

00:05:08,420 --> 00:05:10,He was a foreigner.

00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:15,Now that I think about it, he might
have been my mother's old lover.

00:05:16,930 --> 00:05:18,Though I don't have any basis.

00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:23,You're really good at drawing.

00:05:28,980 --> 00:05:30,What's this supposed to be?

00:06:28,330 --> 00:06:31,Green peas!

00:06:33,840 --> 00:06:35,Here's the cake!

00:06:38,470 --> 00:06:43,My mother's Christmas cake was a rectangular
loaf, white with fresh cream on the outside.

00:06:53,290 --> 00:06:58,Once she cut it with the knife, the slice
would reveal brilliant red and green colors.

00:06:59,450 --> 00:07:02,It's very pretty. How did you make it?

00:07:02,870 --> 00:07:05,How do you make it? It's amazing!

00:07:05,660 --> 00:07:07,Want to know?

00:07:07,410 --> 00:07:10,The red is amazake made from red rice.

00:07:11,290 --> 00:07:13,The green is spinach.

00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:19,I put the two types of dough
into one mold and baked them.

00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:23,But I don't understand how it
ends up as two colors lengthwise,

00:07:23,283 --> 00:07:26,if you just put in the dough
like that, it's impossible.

00:07:26,810 --> 00:07:28,You'll have to figure that one out by yourself.

00:07:53,460 --> 00:07:54,You okay?

00:08:06,310 --> 00:08:07,There was one left.

00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:16,That man came to our house around three times,

00:08:16,650 --> 00:08:17,but that was it.

00:08:19,190 --> 00:08:20,I see.

00:08:20,930 --> 00:08:24,And that also marked the end
of that Christmas cake.

00:08:26,370 --> 00:08:28,- I've had it before.
- What?

00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:30,Back in middle school.

00:08:30,090 --> 00:08:31,I don't remember.

00:08:31,610 --> 00:08:35,I think it was around a year
before Ma'** Fukuko left.

00:08:35,610 --> 00:08:37,She had me sample the taste.

00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:38,I didn't know that.

00:08:39,050 --> 00:08:43,I used to borrow books from her all the time.
You used to have a whole bunch of them, right?

00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:46,Like collections of complete
works and encyclopedias.

00:08:46,950 --> 00:08:49,Oh yeah, you did come over all the time.

00:08:49,860 --> 00:08:52,Well, she praised you a lot.

00:08:52,730 --> 00:08:57,Even though I'm not particularly fond of books,
I began to try to read them anyways.

00:08:57,470 --> 00:08:59,That's when she suddenly said to me...

00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:05,Go and find your own books to read
if you're going to read for yourself.

00:09:07,110 --> 00:09:08,What?

00:09:08,410 --> 00:09:11,Or something like that. She then sold
them to the second-hand book store.

00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:13,We probably didn't have money left.

00:09:13,950 --> 00:09:17,I helped carry the books so
she gave me a couple of them.

00:09:17,450 --> 00:09:21,I see. The fact that she made a cake may have
meant that she had a man around then too.

00:09:24,590 --> 00:09:26,So, what about the cake?

00:09:26,290 --> 00:09:30,Oh yeah. We haven't grown red
rice for the longest time, right?

00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:33,Though the ears of the red rice plants
are red and make the fields look pretty,

00:09:33,170 --> 00:09:36,the seeds actually spill out easily
and it's a pain to harvest.

00:09:36,670 --> 00:09:40,That's when I thought
that I could just use black rice.

00:09:40,510 --> 00:09:42,We grow black rice every year.

00:09:42,780 --> 00:09:45,So I made amazake with black rice.

00:09:46,350 --> 00:09:49,I used slightly less water
and it ended up fairly strong.

00:09:49,150 --> 00:09:52,Black rice is of the glutinous
variety, so it comes out quite sweet.

00:09:53,620 --> 00:09:56,The amazake was completely black,

00:09:56,290 --> 00:09:59,but when mixed with sugar,
baking soda, wheat flour,

00:09:59,460 --> 00:10:05,baking soda and oil into a doughy mixture, it
ended up a purple color that was just right.

00:10:05,370 --> 00:10:11,Yellow goes well with purple, so I made yellow
colored dough out of boiled pumpkin as well.

00:10:12,540 --> 00:10:17,I filled the mold with the dough made out of
the black rice, up to a little less than half.

00:10:17,850 --> 00:10:20,Then on top of that,
I poured the pumpkin dough

00:10:20,368 --> 00:10:23,till the entire thing was about eight tenths
of the mold's height.

00:10:24,890 --> 00:10:26,Then, I baked it in the oven.

00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:34,After baking, I immediately took it
out upside down and let it cool.

00:10:34,330 --> 00:10:36,Doing it like this
would level out the sides.

00:10:37,060 --> 00:10:40,And by doing so, you get the colors
of the dough to be lengthwise.

00:10:43,900 --> 00:10:47,Then I decorate it with fresh cream.

00:10:47,740 --> 00:10:50,Merry Christmas!

00:10:55,750 --> 00:10:57,I see.

00:11:01,490 --> 00:11:04,- Sorry, I'm late!
- Hey!

00:11:04,230 --> 00:11:06,Let's get started with the Christmas tea party!

00:11:07,090 --> 00:11:10,- No. This is a tea party for the year's end.
- Huh?

00:11:10,230 --> 00:11:13,This is a three color cake made
of purple, yellow and white.

00:11:13,735 --> 00:11:15,Those are not Christmas colors.

00:11:15,070 --> 00:11:18,Besides, you guys aren't
Christians either, right?

00:11:18,610 --> 00:11:20,Why are you being so fussy?

00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:25,Come on. Let's just eat.

00:11:27,620 --> 00:11:30,Well then. For the coming year...

00:11:30,250 --> 00:11:32,Let's hope for the best.

00:11:33,350 --> 00:11:35,- Let's eat!
- Digging in!

00:11:41,230 --> 00:11:44,Oh! It's delicious.

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