Azumi focuses upon the life of the female assassin Azumi. The manga begins an indeterminate number of years after the Battle of Sekigahara, but as the Azumi begins her assassination missions, the manga introduces the characters into mainstream history. Many of the early assassination missions that Azumi undertakes are the assassinations of the prominent supporters and generals of the Toyotomi Clan, against whom the Toyotomi Clan expected to again go to war. (Source: Wikipedia) Note: Won an Excellence Prize at the 1997 Japan Media Arts Festival and the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1998.
Japanese study overview
Azumi is a Japanese manga of 637,342 characters, with 17,022 unique words and 2,269 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 17,022 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 様Mr×2,101
- 俺I×1,987
- 殿Mr.×790
- 私I×747
- 言うto say×634
- 思うto think×626
- 女woman×589
- 話talk×540
- 今now×515
- 斬るto kill (a human) using a blade (sword, machete, knife, etc.)×506
- 集collection×500
- 者person×489
- 千代蔵Chiyozou×461
- 天海Amaumi×451
- 家康Ieyasu×271
- 柳生Yagiu×266
- 静音low noise (of a machine, appliance, etc.)×224
- 千代thousand years×224
- 梵天Brahma (Hindu creator god)×219
- 斎congratulation×154