As Part I opens, Jubei (Denjiro Okochi), the best of sea skippers, is unable to overcome the stormy seas of Luzon. All hands on board the Kannonmaru were lost except for Shinkei, who alone made his way to land & eventually home to inform his grandson Jiromaru (Kinnosuke Nakamura) that his father Jubei met with disaster. Young Jiromaru tells his grandfather that he doesn't want to be a skipper like his father, but wants to go to Kyoto and become a samurai…
Japanese study overview
Yureisen Zenpen is a Japanese movie of 12,943 characters, with 1,433 unique words and 629 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.8 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,433 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.
- 次郎丸Jiroumaru×32
- 俺I×28
- 姫young lady of noble birth×28
- お前you×27
- 叔父さんuncle×24
- 侍warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period)×23
- 者person×23
- 申すto say×23
- お父daddy×22
- 様Mr×22
- 姫様princess×22
- 弾正judge (of the Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office)×21
- 一揆uprising (esp. in Japan since middle ages, e.g. peasant uprising)×20
- 堺Sakai×15
- 左馬之助Samanosuke×15
- 赤鼻red nose×14
- 百姓farmer×13
- 松永Matsunaka×13
- 坊様monk×12
- 若殿young lord×12