Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which the old lady has recorded her memories. This is how he learns the truth about her youth working as a housemaid and nanny for the Hirai family in a little house in Tokyo with a red gabled roof.
Japanese study overview
Chiisai Ouchi is a Japanese movie of 25,462 characters, with 2,319 unique words and 934 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 2,319 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.
- 時子Tokiko×127
- 私I×77
- 正治Shōji era (1199.4.27-1201.2.13)×75
- 音sound×64
- 板倉Itakura×57
- 言うto say×56
- 雅樹Maki×55
- 恭一Kyōichi×53
- 健史Kenshi×52
- 奥さまwife×41
- 思うto think×32
- 僕I×32
- 貞子Sazako×17
- 康子Kōko×14
- 平井Hirai×11
- 支那China×9
- 軍治Gunji×8
- 花輪wreath×7
- 南京Nanjing (China)×6
- 山形Yamagata (city, prefecture)×5