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.
This is a pebble. That's a pebble.
Piedras pequeñas por aquí, 
piedras pequeñas por allí.
Lo mires como lo mires, 
son piedras pequeñas.
Estas são pedrinhas. Aquelas são pedrinhas...