Midon the fisherman is wounded and can't go fishing.  He borrows money from a samurai, but can't pay it back. A wife gets mad at her drunkard husband and returns to her parents.  But she misses her husband now that she's left him. A young servant named Sutekichi loves katanas.  He wants his own, so he pays a blacksmith with a thousand logs to make one for him.
The girl was being sacrificed
En el pueblo hay una tradición por la cual
La muchacha venía de una 
aldea en la que se ofrecía
A garota estava sendo oferecida como sacrifício
 pelo seu vilarejo para o mestre da montanha.