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 54,715 characters, with 3,149 unique words and 982 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is easy, 1.9 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 3,149 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×124
- 俺I×113
- 達pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)×112
- 君you×105
- 御村Mimura×92
- 食べるto eat×92
- 隆子Takako×91
- 弟妹younger brother and sister×77
- 言うto say×68
- 思うto think×63
- 今日today×61
- 和夫Kazuo×46
- 太郎Tarō×45
- 次郎Keijirō×45
- 池上Ikeue×39
- 三郎third son×30
- 一ノ宮most important provincial shrine×30
- 松阪牛Matsusaka beef×19
- 玉の輿palanquin set with jewels×17