It’s the 17th century in Japan. Child outcast Kamui lives on the fringes of a miserably stratified society. Fueled by pure grit, rage, and a dash of cunning, his only way out is to take up the mantle of ninja. Follow scrappy peasants, cold-blooded ninja, and warriors both disgraced and exalted as they navigate the unforgiving hardships of a violent yet hopeful age. With its vivid and critical attention to social injustice and environmental issues against a backdrop of heart-pounding action and romance, this multilayered gekiga drama not only redefined ninja and samurai fantasy, it also offers astonishing parallels with the modern day. (Source: Drawn & Quarterly)
Japanese study overview
Kamui Den is a Japanese manga of 516,218 characters, with 17,977 unique words and 2,020 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.9 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 17,977 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.
- 伝means of making contact×1,088
- 正助Shousuke×700
- 百姓farmer×577
- 者person×507
- 非人group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system (incl. ex-convicts and vagrants)×433
- 死ぬto die×327
- 人person×310
- 村village×305
- 申すto say×300
- 図drawing×296
- 藩han (estate of a daimyo in the Edo and early Meiji periods)×295
- 夢dream×294
- 日置Hio×260
- 竜之進Ryūnoshin×211
- 一揆uprising (esp. in Japan since middle ages, e.g. peasant uprising)×208
- 城代chamberlain×178
- 庄屋village headman (esp. in the Kansai region)×175
- 目付censor×137
- 玉手Tamate×131
- 家老chief retainer×116