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.
It was Sutekichi's job to do 
whatever he was told quickly.
Sutekichi debía estar disponible
Sutekishi tenía que estar atento
Era trabalho de Sutekichi prontamente
 realizar tudo que lhe fosse pedido.