The 35th episode of the NHK Asadora drama series "Kaze,Kaoru " (NHK General, Monday-Saturday 8:00 AM, etc.), starring Ai Mikami and Juri Kosaka , aired on May 15th, and featured the full appearance of Chikako Izumi, a patient of the Marchioness played by actress Yukie Nakama. Viewers were particularly interested in the actions of Yoshi (Mayumi Myojo), the nurse who visited Chikako's hospital room.
When it was decided that Chikako of the Marquis Izumi family would be hospitalized, an unusual tension spread throughout the hospital. The doctors all came out to welcome Chikako, and Professor Imai (Yuta Furukawa), the professor of surgery, explained that if there were no abnormalities in her body, she would undergo a mastectomy. When the hospital director, Tada (Michitaka Tsutsui), asked, "Is there anything that concerns you?", Chikako complained about the lamp in her hospital room, saying, "It's not really my taste...", and had it removed.
The entire hospital is preparing to make Chikako's surgery a success, but Chikako is being selfish, constantly changing nurses she doesn't like. In the midst of all this, nurse Yoshi rushes into Chikako's room and silently begins to pour tea. She raises the teapot high and pours the tea into the cup, at which point Chikako angrily shouts, "Please replace me with someone else!"
This way of pouring tea reminded many viewers of a classic scene from the popular detective drama series "Aibou" (TV Asahi), where the protagonist, Ukyo Sugishita, played by Yutaka Mizutani, lifts the teapot high to pour tea.
Since Nakama also appears in the same series as Miyako Yashiro, comments on social media included: "Is this an homage to 'Aibou'?", "Is that Miyako Yashiro?", "Is Yoshi making tea just like Ukyo-san!", "The way to pour tea is Sugishita Ukyo-style", "No, that's how you pour tea!? He's not Ukyo-san", and "It reminded me of Sugishita Ukyo from Aibou".
