The Iga clan and the Kouga clan have been sworn enemies for more than four hundred years. Only the Hanzo Hattori truce has kept the two families from all-out war. Now, under the order of Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, the truce has finally been dissolved. Ten ninja from each clan must fight to the death in order to determine who will be the next Tokugawa Shogun. The surviving clan will rule for the next thousand years. But not all the clan members are in agreement. Oboro of the Iga clan and Gennosuke of the Kouga clan have fallen deeply in love. Now these star-crossed lovers have been pitted against each other. Can their romance conquer a centuries-old rivalry? Or is their love destined to end in death? (Source: Del Rey)
Japanese study overview
Basilisk: Kouga Ninpouchou is a Japanese manga of 50,702 characters, with 4,325 unique words and 1,299 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.8 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 4,325 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.
- 甲賀Kaga×245
- 伊賀Iga (former province located in the west of present-day Mie Prefecture)×243
- 様Mr×222
- 弦之介Gennosuke×170
- 朧hazy×169
- 忍法ninja arts×133
- 天sky×122
- 殿Mr.×103
- 膳small dining table (usu. for a single person)×99
- 年year×75
- 小四郎Koshirou×75
- 殺るto do someone in×71
- 陽炎Kagerou×67
- 帖folding book×62
- 左衛門Saemon×53
- 駿府Sunpu (old name for Shizuoka City)×44
- 幻Gen×38
- 税込including tax (of a price)×38
- 人別帖family registry (of the district; Edo period)×29
- 地虫scarabaeid beetle grub×22