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 husband had stopped drinking
se dio cuenta de que el esposo 
había dejado la bebida
la mujer se dio cuenta de que 
su esposo había dejado la bebida
seu marido parara de beber