The story begins in 1629 Shizuoka during Tokugawa Tadanaga's rule. The daimyo staged a tournament where the participants fought with real steel Japanese swords rather than bokken, against his vassals' strong objection. The story revolves around the first match between the one-armed swordsman Fujiki Gennosuke and the blind samurai Irako Seigen and deals with the circumstances that led the two to participate in Tokugawa's tournament. (Source: Wikipedia)
Japanese study overview
Shigurui is a Japanese manga of 130,531 characters, with 10,960 unique words and 2,216 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is expert, 4.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 10,960 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 年year×433
- 源之助Gennosuke×304
- 清玄Kiyoharu×240
- 藤木Fujiki×227
- 原作original work×210
- 漫画cartoon×184
- 第prefix for forming ordinal numbers×181
- 者person×167
- 山口Yamaguchi (city, prefecture)×144
- 流way×140
- 伊良子Irako×133
- 剣sword (esp. a large, double-edged one)×129
- 三重Sae×110
- 貴由Kiyoshi×105
- 駿河Suruga (former province located in the central and northern parts of present-day Shizuoka Prefecture)×101
- 南條範夫Nanjō Norio×89
- 伊良Ira×86
- 御前試合contest held in the presence of a daimyo, shogun or the Emperor×73
- 全巻complete set (of volumes)×50
- 無明avidya (ignorance)×44