Ootone no Taiketsu

In the town of Yumoto Asakichi a leftarmless gambler who had been winning at the gambling hall was attracted by the sound of a faintly heard storyteller Saman and left his seat Asakichi was fascinated by the voice of Oyasu who sounded exactly like his wife Ochiyo who had died three years earlier Asakichi told Oyasu that Ochiyo had fled with him to his home town of Omigawa just before he was deposed by the samurai Shingo Inaba but that he had put her through a lot of hardship to make her die Oyasus husband Tokujiro was a palace carpenter in Edo but his skills were damaged and he came to take a cure Asakichi heard about Oyasus story and offered him money and Tokujiros arm was almost completely healed by Oyasus nursing care