Don't quite understand sentence in Japanese folk-tale video


The video is the following: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkfT0NMsGz0>

Towards the beginning, it says:

> むかしむかし ゆきぶかい やまおくに、  
>  しょうじき **ものの**  
>  おじいさんと おばあさんが すんでいました。  
>  ふたりは なかのよい ふうふでしたが、  
>  とても びんぼうでした。

From what I've been told, ものの means although. So I understand the first
sentence as: Although humble, the old man and the old lady lived. It really
doesn't sound very logical to me. Am I missing something?




Yes,
[ものの](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E3%82%82%E3%81%AE%E3%81%AE-646370#E3.83.87.E3.82.B8.E3.82.BF.E3.83.AB.E5.A4.A7.E8.BE.9E.E6.B3.89)
means "although". However, in this sentence, you are parsing it wrong. It is:

> しょうじきもの の おじいさん...

So it is really [正直者]{しょう・じき・もの}, which means "an honest person" or "a person
of integrity" (正直 means "honest", not "humble").




Yes,
[ものの](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E3%82%82%E3%81%AE%E3%81%AE-646370#E3.83.87.E3.82.B8.E3.82.BF.E3.83.AB.E5.A4.A7.E8.BE.9E.E6.B3.89)
means "although". However, in this sentence, you are parsing it wrong. It is:

> しょうじきもの の おじいさん...

So it is really [正直者]{しょう・じき・もの}, which means "an honest person" or "a person
of integrity" (正直 means "honest", not "humble").

