During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest with his ideas of how to overthrow the corrupt government and end the bloodshed between the Choshu and Satsuma clans which would ultimately lead to the alliance of these 2 clans and restoration of the emperor to full power. Based on the play that made Sawada Shojiro famous, this is the story of Tsukigata Hanpeita, a forward looking samurai from Choshu, who along with Katsura Kogoro and Sakamoto Ryoma of Tosa worked to bring their dream of a new era in Japan.
Japanese study overview
Tsukigata Hanpeita is a Japanese movie of 12,055 characters, with 1,373 unique words and 637 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.4 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,373 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.
- 様Mr×48
- 月Moon×46
- 月形crescent shape×33
- 月形Tsukigata×32
- 言うto say×30
- 梅松Umematsu×28
- 俺I×21
- 染八Somehachi×20
- 待つto wait×20
- 長州Chōshū×19
- 私I×19
- 雛菊daisy (Bellis perennis)×17
- 早瀬Haseya×16
- 桂katsura (Cercidiphyllum japonicum)×12
- 薩摩Satsuma (former province located in the west of present-day Kagoshima Prefecture)×11
- 奥平Okutaira×9
- 早瀬swift current×8
- 廻Mawari×7
- 副長deputy head×7
- 松ヶ崎Matsugasaki×6