A boy finds a strange object while playing hide-and-seek. His grandfather tells him the story of his own youth, and the important role the old lamp played. This story is about the modernization of Japan and the changes that came with it. The Agency of Cultural Affairs of Japan invested 214 million yen ($2.26 million) in "Young Animator Training Project" and entrusted the execution of the project to Japan Animation Creators Association (JaniCA). JaniCA produced four original anime (23 min long with OP and ED sequences) in cooperation with four production studios. Ojii-san no Lamp was one of these four projects.
Japanese study overview
Ojii-san no Lamp is a Japanese anime of 2,253 characters, with 470 unique words and 231 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 470 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
This title is too short to reliably find similar media.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 俺I×9
- 屋shop×7
- 九条Kyūjō×5
- 電気electricity×5
- 明かりlight×4
- 帰るto return×4
- 聞くto hear×4
- 村village×4
- 言うto say×4
- 使うto use (a tool, method, etc.)×3
- 家house×3
- 間に合うto be in time (for)×3
- 卸値wholesale price×3
- 売るto sell×3
- 商売trade×3
- 何でもany×3
- 日day×2
- 東一Tōichi×2
- 今日today×2
- 前in front (of)×2