2006/12/23
Speech timeSpeech duration
46minWord count4,849
Unique words · 892 once
1,405 Unique kanji · 275 once
692Avg. sentenceAverage sentence length12.8
Speech speed
275 Difficulty Expert
RatingExternal Rating
70 %The year is Seitoku 2 (1712), and Japan has a new ruler. But Ietsugu, the 7th Tokugawa shogun, is only four years old. The power vacuum this creates has Edo Castle roiling in political intrigue and personal positioning of all kinds.
Japanese study overview
Oooku (2006) is a Japanese movie of 10,658 characters, with 1,405 unique words and 692 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is expert, 4.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,405 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×97
- 絵島Eshima×57
- 院house of parliament (congress, diet, etc.)×44
- 月光moonlight×38
- 私I×35
- 上様emperor×28
- 女woman×24
- 大奥inner palace (in Edo Castle)×20
- 越前Echizen (former province located in parts of present-day Fukui and Gifu prefectures)×20
- 屋shop×17
- あなた様you (singular)×13
- 申すto say×13
- 新五郎Shingorou×13
- 生島Ikishima×11
- 藤川Fujikaha×9
- 山村mountain village×9
- 天英Takae×7
- 守babysitting×7
- 代参visiting a temple for another×7
- 中奥area of the Edo castle where the shogun would work and spend his daily life×6