Tasuke stumbles across Kokichi, a distraught man whom having lost his fiancee to Lord Kawakatsu is ready to commit suicide. Tasuke learns that Kokichi's fiancee, Otoyo, was a chambermaid whom Kawakatsu abducted in order to make her his concubine and Tasuke feels compelled to right this wrong. Meanwhile Kawakatsu is dealing in black-market lumber and receiving kick-backs but unbeknownst to him he is under investigation by Lord Izu, one of the Shogun Elders. Will Tasuke be able to rescue Otoyo from the clutches of Lord Kawakatsu and can Lord Izu put an end to his money hungry evildoings.
Japanese study overview
Isshin Tasuke: Tenka no Ichidaiji is a Japanese movie of 14,624 characters, with 1,519 unique words and 646 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,519 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.
- 太助Taisuke×81
- 親分boss×42
- 野郎guy×26
- 私I×26
- 川勝Kawakachi×25
- 彦左衛門Hikozaemon×24
- 俺I×24
- 空き地vacant land×24
- 言うto say×23
- 待つto wait×23
- 絶望despair×22
- 殿feudal lord×22
- 老中member of shogun's council of elders×20
- 幸吉Kōkichi×17
- 大久保Ookuho×16
- 相模屋Sagamiya×14
- 彦boy×14
- 月見moon viewing (esp. during the eight month of the lunar calendar)×12
- 伊豆Izu (former province located on the Izu Peninsula in present-day Shizuoka Prefecture, and the Izu Islands)×11
- 木場lumberyard×10