Zankuro Matsudaira (Ken Watanabe) is a low-grade vassal of the Tokugawa Shogun, forced to moonlight as a bodyguard and executioner to make ends meet. He also has a drinking problem, an overeating mother, and a propensity to protect the oppressed, all of which eat into his finances. His confident mother Masajo (Kyoko Kishida) is the descendant of a famous family of shogunate retainers and a mistress of the pen and sword, who regards her son as a failure.
Japanese study overview
Gokenin Zankurou is a Japanese drama of 343,630 characters, with 12,309 unique words and 1,780 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.7 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 12,309 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.
- 様Mr×985
- 九郎Kyūrou×905
- 残remainder×735
- 私I×677
- お前you×540
- 殿Mr.×527
- 俺I×449
- 旦那master (of a house, shop, etc.)×436
- 言うto say×411
- 女woman×372
- 両both (hands, parents, sides, etc.)×366
- 御honorific/polite/humble prefix×334
- 松平Shouhei×174
- 佐次Saji×149
- 伝三郎Densaburō×131
- 西尾Saio×121
- 御家人immediate vassal (of the shogun; Kamakura and Muromachi periods)×113
- 旗本headquarters (on the battlefield)×76
- 家老chief retainer×62
- 奉行所magistrate's office×57