Seven students, members of their university's mystery club, decide to spend a week-long vacation on Tsunojima Island off the coast of Japan. Six months earlier the owner of the island was brutally murdered alongside his wife and housekeepers, and the case remains unsolved. Soon after their arrival they begin to suspect that one of their members is intending to kill them one at a time, but who? Meanwhile, back on the mainland a former member of the club named Kawaminami receives a letter saying that the death of a girl who died at a club party one year earlier was murder. And the girl in question just happened to be the daughter of the slaughtered island owner. After learning that several other people have received a similar letter, he also begins to suspect that something sinister is happening.
Japanese study overview
Jukkakukan no Satsujin is a Japanese novel of 149,573 characters, with 8,305 unique words and 1,821 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 8,305 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.
- 云うto say×371
- 江南Ena×203
- 思うto think×189
- 彼he×177
- 犯人offender×177
- 僕I×175
- 青司Aoshi×173
- 自分myself×170
- 島田pompadour-like hair style, popular for unmarried women in the Edo period×168
- 島island×164
- 部屋room×143
- 中inside×129
- 須Shu×125
- 千織Chiori×89
- 紅次郎Kōjirō×86
- 角島Kakushima×70
- 角形-gon (as in pentagon, hexagon, etc.)×67
- 入江inlet×21
- 坐るto sit (down)×19
- 云えるto be possible to say×18