Midon the fisherman is wounded and can't go fishing, so 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 (repeat from episode 24), and 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.
1)漁師の美殿(みどん)は怪我をして漁に出られなくなり、藩の侍に金を借りるが、漁に出られないまま返済の日を迎えてしまう。怒った侍は美殿を探しだし…。2)酒飲みの亭主とケンカした女房が実家に帰る。しかし、離れてみれば亭主が恋しい。読み書きを知らない女房は、路傍の小石に思いを込めて亭主に送り…。3)刀好きの奉公人、捨吉（すてきち）は自分の刀が持ちたくて、たき木千把で鍛冶屋に刀を作ってもらう。刀は名刀となり木千把丸と名付けるが・・・。
