The show is based on the Ogiri style of rakugo, a form of traditional Japanese storytelling. The ogiri system sees a host put questions to a panel of fellow rakugo storytellers who must produce a funny or witty response. Shoten's format thus sees the host—currently Shunpūtei Shōta—pose questions to six storytellers (known as "ogiri members") seated left to right (as the audience sees them) as follows: San'yūtei Koyūza (sky-blue kimono), San'yūtei Kōraku (pink kimono), Hayashiya Kikuo (yellow kimono), Hayashiya Sanpei II (beige kimono), San'yūtei Enraku VI (purple kimono), Hayashiya Taihei (orange kimono).
Japanese study overview
Shouten is a Japanese drama of 283,464 characters, with 11,424 unique words and 1,845 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.4 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 11,424 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.
- 言うto say×878
- 私I×531
- １枚one (thin, flat object)×523
- 一之輔Ichinosuke×456
- 宮治Miyaji×420
- 好楽Kōraku×416
- たい平Taihei×414
- 皆さんall×413
- 小遊三Koyūza×397
- 持つto hold (in one's hand)×355
- 思うto think×349
- 山田Ooshita×342
- 笑点Shōten (1966-; TV comedy program)×303
- 大喜利quiz-like (TV) comedy segment in which participants improvise one-liners based on a given theme×132
- 昇太Shouta×121
- 落語rakugo×92
- 春風亭昇太Shunpuutei Shouta (1959.12.9-)×79
- 演芸entertainment×64
- 立川Tajikawa×58
- 落語家rakugo story teller×43