Taro Yamada is a scholarship student at Ichinomiya High School. He’s smart, athletic, and handsome—so everyone assumes he’s wealthy. In reality, he lives in poverty with his mother and six younger siblings in one small room, and his father Kazuo is an absent wandering artist. Taro works part-time to support the family. Together with his best friend Takuya Mimura and classmates, Taro navigates comedic and touching moments. Through friendship, romance, and family bonds, the series asks what true happiness really means. It’s a heartwarming coming-of-age story.
Japanese study overview
Yamada Tarou Monogatari is a Japanese drama of 53,544 characters, with 3,080 unique words and 972 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is easy, 1.9 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 3,080 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.
- 私I×179
- 山田Ooshita×121
- 俺I×113
- 君you×102
- 御村Mimura×92
- 食べるto eat×92
- 隆子Takako×79
- 言うto say×68
- 思うto think×63
- 今日today×61
- 君Mr×59
- 家house×51
- 池上Ikeue×39
- 和夫Kazuo×35
- 太郎Tarō×33
- 次郎Keijirō×30
- 弟妹younger brother and sister×20
- 松阪牛Matsusaka beef×19
- 一ノ宮most important provincial shrine×17
- 玉の輿palanquin set with jewels×17