The protagonist, Yaiba (Kurogane Yaiba), is a wild samurai boy who trains in the jungle with his father, Kenjuro! By chance, Yaiba returns to Japan, where he meets his rival Takeshi Onimaru, who has the same samurai spirit as Yaiba, in a new training ground. Yaiba is living a life of serious competition, but when Onimaru obtains the “Legendary Demon Sword”, he is on a journey full of spectacle and great adventure...! (Source: Crunchyroll News)
Japanese study overview
Shin Samurai-den YAIBA is a Japanese anime of 49,162 characters, with 3,386 unique words and 1,026 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 3,386 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.
- 刃edge (of a knife or sword)×310
- 鬼丸Onimaru×159
- 剣sword (esp. a large, double-edged one)×149
- 玉ball×106
- 武蔵Takekura×100
- 俺I×96
- 小次郎Kojirō×95
- お前you×71
- 雷神god of thunder×69
- 言うto say×48
- 力force×43
- 庄之助Shounosuke×41
- 神剣divine sword (one of the three sacred treasures)×37
- 物干し竿pole on which to hang laundry for drying×25
- 八鬼Yaki×24
- 龍神Tatsugami×24
- 巌流島Ganryūjima×19
- 撫子pink (any flower of genus Dianthus, esp. the fringed pink, Dianthus superbus)×18
- 十郎Jūrou×16
- つばめ返しquickly reversed cut (sword technique)×16