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.
in the government in Satsuma so he 
and his ill mother could survive.
pidió dinero prestado
tuvo que pedirle dinero prestado
que trabalhava no governo em Satsuma, de forma
 que ele e sua mãe pudessem sobreviver.