The year is 1575 in feudal Japan. Oda Nobunaga's (Kippei Shiina) forces defeat Takeda Katsuyori, when Nagashino Castle was besieged during the Battle of Nagashino. The next year Oda Nobunada decides to build a lavish new castle symbolizing his unification of various factions. The castle named Azuchi Castle will be built near water and high enough to be seen from the capital city of Kyoto. Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of Kenichi Yamamoto's novel of the same name received the 33rd Japan Academy Film Prize for Excellent Art Direction.
Japanese study overview
Katen no Shiro is a Japanese movie of 10,436 characters, with 1,260 unique words and 600 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,260 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.
- 又右衛門Matauemon×43
- 城castle×42
- 棟梁central figure×35
- お屋形様nobleman×29
- 天主Lord of Heaven×28
- 市造Ichizou×28
- 殿Mr.×24
- 様Mr×22
- 田鶴crane (bird)×20
- 凛cold×17
- 岡部Okabe×15
- 番匠Hanshou×15
- 木曽Kiso×15
- 天下一unique thing×12
- 作事Sakuji×11
- 熊蔵Kumazou×11
- 甚兵衛Jinbee×9
- 親柱main pillar×7
- 一門family×6
- 奉行magistrate×5