30-year-old Kakioka Tetsuro returns home for the first time in 10 years to save his family’s traditional inn Niji no Ya after he hears that his father has been hospitalized. But he is lost for words when he sees that it has completely changed. The dignity and service of the inn, which boasts a 100-year heritage, has totally vanished. It has transformed into a haunt where employees who are not easy to deal with linger around. There is Terakado Lucy Kazuko, a flamenco dancer who says a stream of offensive things; Kageshima Shunsaku, a germaphobe manager who hates hot springs; Asatsuki Momoyo, the head waitress who is a single mother devoted to her son Ringoro; Ringoro, a boyish employee who loves his mother and unicycle; Uno Kanata, a chef who has a UNO addiction; and Umekoshi Hifuji, an old-timer who has clung on to the inn for 40 years.
Japanese study overview
Japanese Style is a Japanese drama of 80,043 characters, with 4,393 unique words and 1,255 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 3.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 4,393 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 事thing×324
- 言うto say×202
- 私I×182
- 思うto think×154
- 俺I×137
- 梅Japanese apricot (Prunus mume)×128
- 哲郎Tetsuo×96
- 凛cold×91
- 人person×90
- 社長company president×89
- 知るto know×87
- 聞くto hear×77
- 吾郎Arou×75
- 桃代Momoka×68
- 浮野Ukino×52
- 小野Ouno×28
- うさぎ小屋rabbit hutch×19
- 補欠filling a vacancy×17
- 熱波heat wave×16
- 吾I×14