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 wife had gotten angry and gone back
La esposa se enojó y regresó a la casa 
de sus padres, a dos montañas de distancia.
La esposa se había hartado y volvió a la casa de sus 
padres, en una aldea a dos montañas de distancia.
A esposa ficou zangada e foi
 embora para sua casa,