Kobei FUNADU of the warrior class has failed in an unfamiliar business and has become bankrupt, and now lives with his wife, two daughters and one-year-old unweaned child in obscurity in a tenement house on a back street in Fukagawa (in Koto Ward, Tokyo).
士族船津幸兵衛は、慣れない商売に失敗し没落、妻と二人の娘1歳の乳飲み子と深川_(江東区)の裏長屋に逼塞している。