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.
The next day, the wife 
left her village behind,
Al día siguiente, la esposa 
se despidió de sus padres
Un día después, la esposa 
se despidió de sus padres
No outro dia, a esposa deixou seu vilarejo