
The drama, based on a novel by Keiichiro Ryu, tells an alternative history in which the historical shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu is killed at the Battle of Sekigahara and his double Jirosaburo Serada becomes the ruler of the country instead.
Kagemusha Tokugawa Ieyasu is a Japanese drama of 76,987 characters, with 5,079 unique words and 1,419 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is expert, 4.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 5,079 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.