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.
from parent to child and old to young.
pasado de generación en generación.
que se pasa de 
generación en generación.
passados de pais para filhos,
 de idosos para jovens.