"Paul Blay" wrote ...
> "Kevin Wayne Williams" <kww.nihongo@verizon.nut> wrote ...
> > Paul Blay wrote:
> > > "Kevin Wayne Williams" wrote ...
> > > 
> > >>I know that I am not the only one watching these things. Yesterday, the
> > >>heroine of NHK's morning serial
> > > 
> > > 
> > > What's the title?
> > > 
> > > 
> > >>, Tenka, got pushed over in the street.
> > 
> >       ^^^^^
> > "Tenka", maybe?
> 
> OK then smarty pants - what's the title in /real/ characters?

To answer my own question 
天花
Further things found include 
1. 天花 appears also to be the name of the heroine - which is 
what I originally assumed your sentence to be referring to.
2. It was from falling over
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/asadora/story/story_07.html
二人について外に出た天花は後ろから走ってきた通行人と激突。
目を強く打って、一時的にだが視力を失ってしまう。