The end of the Edo period. It was vampires who forced Japan to open its borders to the outside world. The year is 1853. Japan is in the midst of a turbulent period as it is forced to open its borders to the Western world, which is ruled by vampires. Hayato, a former member of the Shinsengumi, nearly loses his life when his comrades betray him. By chance, a vampire girl named Hearse, who has no memory of her own, appears on the scene. Hayato vows to take revenge even if it means forsaking his human identity, and chooses to become her servant. At the same time, heroes from Europe and the United States gathered in pursuit of Hearse. Each of them manipulates their own unique bloody epitaphs and hunts down Hayato and Hearse. In addition, the story begins to take an unexpected turn when peculiar characters such as Soji Okita and John Manjiro appear one after another in front of the two. Can Hayato get his revenge? Who exactly is the hearse? This blood-curdling tale of the Bakumatsu Restoration begins here!
Japanese study overview
Souchi no Bohimei is a Japanese novel of 93,922 characters, with 7,018 unique words and 1,914 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.7 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 7,018 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.
- 隼人Hayato×711
- 柩coffin×345
- 沖田Okita×286
- 万次郎Manjirō×134
- 自分myself×124
- 血blood×119
- 血族blood relative×100
- 男man×80
- 俺I×79
- 思うto think×74
- 感じるto feel×72
- 言葉language×72
- 新兵衛Shinbei×63
- 新選組Shinsengumi×50
- 墓碑銘epitaph×33
- 氏族clan×26
- 薩摩藩Satsuma Domain×22
- 伊東Itō×22
- 異人foreigner (esp. one of European ancestry)×21
- 薩摩Satsuma (former province located in the west of present-day Kagoshima Prefecture)×20