When Roman architect Lucius is criticized for his “outdated” thermae designs, he retreats to the local bath to collect his thoughts. All Lucius wants is to recapture the Rome of earlier days, when one could enjoy a relaxing bath without the pressure of merchants and roughhousing patrons. Slipping deeper into the warm water, Lucius is suddenly caught in the suction and dragged through the drainage at the bottom of the bath! He emerges coughing and sputtering amid a group of strange-looking foreigners with the most peculiar bathhouse customs... over 1,500 years in the future in modern-day Japan! His contemporaries wanted him to modernize, and so, borrowing the customs of these mysterious bath-loving people, Lucius opens what quickly becomes the most popular new bathhouse in Rome—Thermae Romae! (Source: Yen Press) Note: Won the 3rd Manga Taisho Award in 2010.
Japanese study overview
Thermae Romae is a Japanese manga of 137,984 characters, with 9,143 unique words and 1,784 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.7 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 9,143 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.
- 私I×438
- 浴場bathhouse×251
- 事thing×168
- 思うto think×129
- 風呂bath×127
- 今now×124
- 様Mr×119
- 技師engineer×119
- 皇帝emperor×116
- 湯hot water×116
- 中inside×109
- 言うto say×107
- 古代ローマancient Rome×69
- ローマ人(ancient) Roman×63
- ローマ帝国Roman Empire×24
- 元老院(Roman) senate×21
- 温泉街hot spring district (within a town)×21
- 温泉地hot spring area×18
- 芸者geisha×18
- 属州provincia×17