A fisherman meets a girl with the help of a goddess, but her parents are opposed to their marriage. He tries to send her home, but...  To build a shrine in their town, the villagers hire a man named Takumi.  At night Takumi's dolls do the work for him.  A priest brings back candles as a gift, but the villagers don't know what they are.  One pretends that they're a kind of food...
Takumi was whittling wood 
into dozens of little dolls.
El maestro estaba haciendo muchas 
muñecas de madera llamadas kokeshi.
El maestro estaba haciendo muchas 
kokeshi, unas muñecas de madera.
Takumi estava talhando dezenas
de bonecas de madeira.