Towards the end of the Edo era, in the town of Kyoto, there lived a wealthy merchant by the name of Imai Tadamasa. He was blessed with 3 children, Hatsu, Asa and Kyutaro. His eldest, Hatsu, was a traditional girl who loved to play the koto and sew. Whilst his second daughter, Asa, was an impish hoyden who loved sumo wrestling. Asa was engaged to be married to the second son of a distinguished family who ran a money changer business in Osaka, Shirooka Shinjiro. Although Asa was furious when she had first heard about the betrothal, when she met up with Shinjiro for the first time, his charisma greatly attracted her and she fell in love with him in no time.
Japanese study overview
Asa ga Kita is a Japanese drama of 435,770 characters, with 10,251 unique words and 1,744 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.8 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 10,251 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.
- 事thing×1,879
- 言うto say×1,034
- 思うto think×894
- 様Mr×761
- 屋shop×592
- 加野Kano×493
- 私I×473
- 今now×446
- 今日today×420
- 旦那様husband×392
- 何でwhy?×379
- 大阪Osaka (city, prefecture)×375
- 新次郎Shinjirō×342
- 千代thousand years×267
- 五代Five Dynasties (of China; 907-979)×265
- 炭坑coal mine×244
- 藍之助Ainosuke×159
- 紙飛行機paper plane×156
- 亀助Kamesuke×141
- 千代Senshiro×133