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.
During his long absence,
Mientras el samurai no estaba en casa,
Mientras el samurái 
no estaba en casa,
Enquanto ele não estava em casa,