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.
but none of them knew the 
meaning of the stones.
pero nadie entendía lo que 
su esposa quería decir.
pero nadie entendía lo que 
su esposa quería decirle.
mas nenhum deles sabia 
o significado das pedras.