The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters making appearances: Otsu (Musashi's great love), Akemi, Matahachi (his former fellow soldier), old lady Osugi (still doggedly trying to defeat Musashi), and even the return of Priest Takuan (the man responsible for his journey towards enlightenment). But most of all, the boastful, long-haired and long-sworded Sasaki Kojiro.
Japanese study overview
Miyamoto Musashi: Ganryuu-jima no kettou is a Japanese movie of 14,265 characters, with 1,766 unique words and 769 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is expert, 4.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,766 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.
- 武蔵Musashi (former province located in parts of present-day Tokyo, Kanagawa and Saitama prefectures)×68
- 殿Mr.×38
- 様Mr×35
- 先生teacher×28
- 剣sword (esp. a large, double-edged one)×27
- 知るto know×26
- 小次郎Kojirō×22
- 申すto say×21
- 伊織Io×21
- 思うto think×20
- 通Ikariya×19
- 宮本武蔵Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645)×19
- 武蔵Takekura×15
- 巌流Ganryū×14
- 佐渡Sado (former province located on Sado Island in present-day Niigata Prefecture)×13
- 又八Matahachi×12
- 佐々木小次郎Sasakikojirō×11
- 沢庵pickled daikon radish×7
- 将軍家family positioned to accede to the shogunate×7
- 百姓farmer×6