The 77th NHK Asadora is Chiritotechin. Location includes Fukui prefecture. This renzoku is about Wada Kiyomi (referred to as Kiyomi-B), a girl brought up in Fukui who moves to Osaka in search of her soul. In Osaka, Kiyomi-B becomes enchanted with rakugo, a Japanese traditional form of comic storytelling, and pursues a career in rakugo. In the summer of 1982, Kiyomi-B and her family move to Obama of Fukui, her father's hometown. Kiyomi-B's grandmother and uncle welcome the family, but Shotaro the grandfather does not allow Masanori to take over the Wakasa lacquer chopsticks making. One day, Kiyomi-B listens to rakugo at Shotaro's factory and becomes fond of it. Shotaro and Kiyomi-B become close through rakugo.
Japanese study overview
Chiritotechin is a Japanese drama of 324,376 characters, with 9,186 unique words and 1,700 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 9,186 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.
- 事thing×1,324
- 言うto say×978
- 思うto think×776
- 私I×759
- 師匠master×727
- 落語rakugo×722
- 草々hurry×722
- お前you×700
- 喜代美Kiyomi×495
- 俺I×407
- 何what×384
- お母ちゃんmum×372
- 若狭Wakasa (former province located in the south of present-day Fukui Prefecture)×294
- 小草Ogusa×235
- 高座platform×222
- 塗coating (esp. lacquering)×194
- 落語家rakugo story teller×187
- 若Jun×135
- 徒然tedium×126
- 正平Shōhei era (of the Southern Court) (1346.12.8-1370.7.24)×122