Kiwa is Iwago’s devoted wife. A former wrestling champion, he has become a ‘zegen’: He buys young girls from poor families and sells them to geisha houses. He is quite successful but Kiwa, although she accepts his money, loathes his work. One day Iwago comes back with a young girl he’s bought from a man who wanted to sell her in China. They adopt her and Kiwa raises her, as a respectable girl, with her two sons. But Iwago wants to manage the career of a singer who becomes his mistress and the situation becomes very tense for the couple.
Japanese study overview
Kai is a Japanese drama of 45,305 characters, with 3,033 unique words and 1,064 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is expert, 4.1 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 3,033 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.
- 言うto say×149
- 思うto think×113
- 綾子Ayako×110
- 岩rock×72
- 人person×70
- お母ちゃんmum×69
- 喜和Kiwa×68
- 伍five×57
- 子child×53
- 女将さんmissus×47
- 時time×44
- 違うto differ (from)×43
- 楼tower×36
- 和歌waka×33
- 富田Tokuda×30
- 巴tomoe×30
- 陽暉Haruki×29
- 旦Aki×27
- 良吉Yoshikichi×22
- 高知Kōchi (city, prefecture)×18