2016/01/14
Speech timeSpeech duration
4h 4minWord count23,321
Unique words · 1,807 once
3,555 Unique kanji · 274 once
1,082Speech speed
245 Difficulty Expert
Episodes8
Monzaemon Chikamatsu is a middle-age dramatist of jōruri (form of puppet theater that preceded bunraku and kabuki), but he is in a slump. His wife left him and his mother is fed up with him. All he does now is drink. The man then meets a gambler named Mankichi and his life begins to change.
Genres
Drama
SourcesTMDB
Japanese study overview
Chikaemon is a Japanese drama of 52,356 characters, with 3,555 unique words and 1,082 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is expert, 4.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 3,555 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.
- 事thing×202
- お初(for the) first time×177
- 旦Aki×129
- 言うto say×122
- お前you×117
- 私I×115
- 糖sugar×115
- 不孝undutifulness to one's parents×113
- 平野屋Hiranoya×109
- 書くto write×96
- 思うto think×80
- 何でwhy?×80
- 近松Chikamatsu×55
- 万吉Kazuyoshi×54
- 浄瑠璃jōruri×51
- 黒田Kurida×45
- 徳兵衛Tokubei×40
- 大坂Osaka (city, prefecture)×29
- 身請けpaying to get someone (esp. a geisha, prostitute, etc.) out of bondage×27
- 朝鮮人参Asian ginseng (Panax ginseng)×24