Luzon Sukezaemon is a merchant who imports vases from the Philippines. The vases are highly valued as tea utensils and he makes a huge profit. This was the first taiga drama to concentrate on the lives of commoners and the reviled merchant class of the Tokugawa period. It documents the rise and fall of the merchant city of Sakai, as seen by its most famous resident, the semilegendary Luzon.
Japanese study overview
Ougon no Hibi is a Japanese drama of 277,530 characters, with 12,119 unique words and 2,080 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is expert, 4.3 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 12,119 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.
- 様Mr×1,013
- 堺Sakai×744
- 船ship×464
- 信長Nobunaga×421
- 助help×417
- 左left×414
- 殿Mr.×339
- 私I×333
- 今井Imai×310
- 者person×260
- 言うto say×255
- 秀吉Shuukichi×248
- 呂宋Luzon (Philippines)×219
- 善住Zenjuu×189
- 助左衛門Sukezaemon×187
- 五右衛門Goemon×185
- 桔梗Chinese bellflower (Platycodon grandiflorus)×138
- 美緒Nio×137
- 関白chief advisor to the Emperor (adviser)×119
- 大坂Osaka (city, prefecture)×113