Sakura is a Japanese serialized morning television drama that aired on NHK from April 1 to September 28 of 2002. The series totalled 156 episodes. It chronicles the life of Matsushita Sakura, a Sansei Japanese-American living in Hawaii. She moves to a small town in Japan to be an assistant language teacher for Japanese middle-school students. The show, lasting only 15 minutes long, is on every morning except Sunday, every week. Sakura first comes to Japan living with her grandparents; later, she moves because she has to teach English to the Japanese students. There she learns many valuable lessons and makes new friends.
Japanese study overview
Sakura is a Japanese drama of 413,937 characters, with 9,065 unique words and 1,563 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 3.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 9,065 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.
- 先生teacher×1,408
- 私I×1,136
- 言うto say×1,070
- 思うto think×915
- 桂木Katsuraki×448
- 僕I×413
- 日本Japan×385
- 帰るto return×368
- お前you×330
- 俺I×318
- 聞くto hear×287
- 気持ちfeeling×271
- 大介Oosuke×213
- 沢田Sahada×157
- 高山high mountain×96
- 響子Otoko×95
- 筆子Fudeko×66
- 飛騨Hida (city, region of Gifu Prefecture, Edo-period province)×42
- 沼田deep-mud paddy×36
- 曙dawn×33