A Choice between Loyalty or Duty of the Samurai! Can the heartlessness of society crush the honor of an individual? In the spring of the 18th year of Kanei, Hosokawa Tadatoshi, feudal lord of the Higo area, died. Although Tadatoshi forbade his vassals to follow him in death before he died, they still committed seppuku one after the other. The new feudal lord, Mitsunao, Tadatoshi's son, also gave the order forbidding seppuku. Abe Yaichiemon obeyed his former lord's last wish but is now being called a coward by his comrades and finally decided to follow Tadatoshi in death in order to save his family's honor. Mitsunao, upset by Yaichiemon actions, punished the Abe family unfairly. Objected to this, the Abe family shut themselves up in their manor as the lords troops moved in. This is the true story of what happened within the Hosokawa clan in early Edo era.
Japanese study overview
Abe Ichizoku is a Japanese movie of 10,935 characters, with 1,530 unique words and 667 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is expert, 4.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,530 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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- 殉死following one's master into the grave×33
- 阿部Abu×28
- 石koku×27
- 上above×26
- 申すto say×22
- 俺I×21
- 者person×17
- 兄貴elder brother×17
- 死ぬto die×14
- 言うto say×14
- 弥五兵衛Yagobee×14
- 親父one's father×13
- 知行carrying out one's duties×13
- 権兵衛Gonnohyoue×12
- 太夫high-ranking noh actor×12
- 弥一Yaichi×10
- 右衛門Uemon×10
- 外記Gaki×9
- お手前tea-ceremony procedures×6
- 瓢箪calabash (Lagenaria siceraria)×6