1986/04/19
Speech timeSpeech duration
35minWord count3,451
Unique words · 845 once
1,283 Unique kanji · 262 once
591Speech speed
274 Difficulty Hard
RatingExternal Rating
62 %Shipwrecked African-American slaves arrive in the midst of Bakumatsu-era Japan; they soon carve out a niche in the market with their musical talents.
Japanese study overview
Jazz Daimyo is a Japanese movie of 8,490 characters, with 1,283 unique words and 591 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.9 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,283 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.
- 者person×17
- 殿feudal lord×16
- 待つto wait×14
- 九郎Kyūrou×14
- 左left×14
- 申すto say×12
- 藩han (estate of a daimyo in the Edo and early Meiji periods)×11
- 江戸Edo (shogunate capital; former name of Tokyo)×10
- 余other×10
- 斬るto kill (a human) using a blade (sword, machete, knife, etc.)×9
- 帰るto return×8
- 通るto go by×8
- 門之助Monnosuke×7
- 薩摩Satsuma (former province located in the west of present-day Kagoshima Prefecture)×6
- 阿弥陀Amitabha (Buddha)×6
- 斉Qi (kingdom in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Period of the Warring States)×5
- 薩Satsu×4
- 藩主feudal lord×4
- 大筒cannon×4
- 玄Kurou×4