The 47th NHK Taiga Drama is a life story of Princess Atsu, who was born in Kagoshima Prefecture, then called Satsuma, and became the wife of Tokugawa Iesada, the 13th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate. She accedes to the highest rank in Ooku, the inner palace of the Edo castle where women related to the reigning shogun resided. Iesada dies soon after their marriage and Atsuhime assumes the name Tenshoin at the age of 23. She exerts herself for the Tokugawa clan and for the nation during the upheaval in the Meiji Restoration, headed by those from Satsuma.
Japanese study overview
Atsuhime is a Japanese drama of 70,295 characters, with 4,260 unique words and 1,243 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is expert, 4.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 4,260 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×495
- 薩摩Satsuma (former province located in the west of present-day Kagoshima Prefecture)×266
- 私I×251
- 天璋院Tenshouin×156
- 幕府shogunate×144
- 公方public affairs×140
- 慶喜Keiki×127
- 長州Chōshū×117
- 京imperial capital (esp. Kyoto)×97
- 朝廷Imperial Court×92
- 戦war×87
- 江戸Edo (shogunate capital; former name of Tokyo)×82
- 宮様prince×72
- 攘夷expulsion of foreigners×70
- 西郷Saigou×67
- 大奥inner palace (in Edo Castle)×65
- 小松small pine×63
- 徳川家the House of Tokugawa×52
- 帯刀wearing a sword×50
- 家茂Iemochi×44