The 64th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Churasan, a story of a young woman, Kohagura Eri, who was born in Kohamajima Island, Okinawa on May 15, 1972, the day when Okinawa was returned to Japan from the U.S. Eleven years later, Kamimura Shizuko and her two sons, Kazuya and Fumiya, from Tokyo come to stay as the guests of a small inn run by Eri’s family. Eri’s fun-loving, yet eccentric family welcomes them warmly. However, Eri is shocked to hear one of the sons, Kazuya is terminally ill and Shizuko and her sons came to Okinawa to spend his last moment together in beautiful nature. Fumiya, Kazuya’s younger brother, and Eri promise to marry each other someday. However after Kazuya’s death, Fumiya and his mother leave the island to go back to Tokyo. Years later, they are reunited, Eri as a nurse and Fumiya, a doctor, working at the same hospital in Tokyo.
Japanese study overview
Churasan is a Japanese drama of 314,608 characters, with 6,508 unique words and 1,469 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.8 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 6,508 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 私I×1,259
- 事thing×1,055
- 言うto say×907
- 思うto think×741
- 君Mr×631
- 何でwhy?×483
- 恵里Ayari×468
- 訳reason×464
- 和也Kazunari×459
- 文也Fuminari×458
- 俺I×404
- 恵達Etatsu×370
- 兄いelder brother×210
- 古波蔵Kohakura×200
- 真理亜Maria×182
- 島田pompadour-like hair style, popular for unmarried women in the Edo period×162
- 容子state (of affairs)×154
- 恵wisdom×127
- 柴田Shida×121
- 上村Uemura×119