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.
he went inside silently to 
avoid waking anybody up.
Entró a casa sin hacer ruido.
Y entró en casa sin hacer ruido.
ele entrou silenciosamente, 
evitando acordar os outros.