Biographical story, based on life of Ino Tadataka, a Japanese measurer and cartographer. Ino Tadataka travelled the length and breadth of Japan on foot for 17 years from the age of 55 to perform his surveys. The accuracy of his maps also owed much to the fact that he was the first surveyor in Japan to combine measurements on the ground with observations of the heavens. Ino started the work as a private individual but earned the confidence of the Shogunate and it eventually turned into a national project. His maps were later used for many years as the foundation for maps made by modern survey techniques.
Japanese study overview
Ino Tadataka: Shigosen no Yume is a Japanese movie of 16,684 characters, with 2,002 unique words and 866 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.7 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 2,002 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.
- 私I×77
- 地図map×44
- 測量measurement×31
- 父さんfather×29
- 先生teacher×28
- 仕事work×28
- 出るto leave×26
- 伊能Ino×25
- 百姓farmer×25
- 度degree (angle, temperature, scale, etc.)×25
- 測るto measure×20
- 水water (esp. cool or cold)×19
- 栄Ikue×18
- 子午線meridian×17
- 公儀imperial court×17
- 蝦夷地Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands)×15
- 歩測pacing off (a measurement or distance)×14
- 堤bank×10
- 天文方Edo-period office in charge of compiling the traditional calendar, astronomical measurements, surveying, translating Western books, etc.×9
- 実測値measured value×9