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.
However, even as the date when he 
had to repay the debt drew near,
Aunque se aproximaba la fecha de pago,
Se aproximaba la fecha del pago,
No entanto, mesmo com a data de 
pagar sua dívida se aproximando,