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.
Sometimes, a merchant would 
visit from her village,
De vez en cuando unos viajeros le 
visitaban y le entregaban
De vez en cuando, un 
viajero le visitaba
Algumas vezes, um mercador ia 
visitá-lo vindo do vilarejo dela,