A swordless “swordsman” and a self-described “schemer” who embark on a quest to obtain twelve peculiar masterpiece blades. Featuring a gatefold color insert, beautiful interior art, and copious bilingual footnotes, this hardcover edition is the first of a quartet scheduled to collect the entire original run. Brimming with action, romance, and unexpected wisdom, often as tongue-in-cheek as The Princess Bride, and shot through with ninjas, samurais, and secret moves, Sword Tale is Musashi for a new generation and a gift for any fan of adventure. (Source: Kodansha USA)
Japanese study overview
Katanagatari is a Japanese novel of 756,646 characters, with 16,232 unique words and 2,307 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 16,232 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.
- 刀sword (esp. Japanese single-edged)×4,621
- 七花Nanaka×3,012
- 言うto say×2,281
- 真庭Maniwa×1,410
- 思うto think×1,038
- 流way×912
- 虚sky×794
- 奇策bizarre plan×784
- 士practitioner×671
- 彼女she×599
- 自分myself×587
- 崎small peninsula×583
- 七実Nanami×542
- 変体unusual form×515
- 記紀the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki (earliest historical records of Japan)×496
- 右衛門Uemon×488
- 左衛門Saemon×488
- 鳳凰Shouin×487
- 迷彩camouflage×364
- 校倉ancient log storehouse×298