1959/07/11
Speech timeSpeech duration
38minWord count4,631
Unique words · 713 once
1,197 Unique kanji · 216 once
556Speech speed
270 Difficulty Hard
RatingExternal Rating
64 %This horror tale relates the consequences of a Japanese legend which tells of a man who has to betray his wife in order to achieve power.
Genres
Horror
Tags
Samurai
Japanese study overview
Toukaidou Yotsuya Kaidan is a Japanese movie of 10,637 characters, with 1,197 unique words and 556 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.8 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,197 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.
- 伊右衛門Iemon×127
- お岩Oiwa×82
- 直助Naosuke×80
- 宅house×61
- 悦self-satisfaction×61
- 袖sleeve×41
- 旦那master (of a house, shop, etc.)×34
- 殿Mr.×29
- 様Mr×23
- 与茂Yomo×22
- 音sound×19
- 言うto say×17
- 左門Samon×15
- 梅Ume×12
- 七Satoru×10
- 民谷Tamigaya×9
- 薬売りtraveling patent-medicine salesman×8
- 間男cheating (on one's husband)×8
- 金魚売りgoldfish peddling×7
- 滝つぼplunge basin×4