Takizawa Bakin, a popular Edo period author, begins to recount a story he is planning in front of his friend, the artist Katsushika Hokusai. The story is about eight warriors who, each carrying a jewel, gather together as if guided by fate and embark on a harsh journey to fight the curse of the Satomi family. Hokusai is drawn into the story that Bakin is telling, and visits Bakin on various occasions to hear the rest of the story, and a strange relationship between the two begins. The serialization becomes Bakin's life's work, with the idea of "rewarding good and punishing evil in a world where evil is rampant," but after 28 years, as the story finally approaches its climax, Bakin begins to lose his sight. With the completion of the story in doubt, he receives an unexpected proposal from his daughter-in-law. Will the story ever be completed?
Japanese study overview
Hakkenden is a Japanese movie of 21,058 characters, with 2,313 unique words and 937 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.7 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 2,313 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.
- 馬琴Bakin×95
- 北斎Hokusai×89
- 私I×62
- 様Mr×54
- 信乃Shina×52
- 音sound×37
- お前you×33
- 浜路Hamaji×31
- 宗伯Souhaku×30
- 百hundred×29
- 玉梓(precious) letter×26
- 路road×26
- 里見Satomi×24
- 伏姫Fukuhime×23
- 八犬伝Hakkenden×23
- 定正Sadamasa×23
- 村雨passing shower×17
- 鎮a weight×15
- 忠臣蔵(story of the) Forty-seven Rōnin×13
- 乾qian (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: heaven, northwest)×9