The story takes place during the end of the Pacific War and the aftermath period and it focuses on Mizoguchi, who is the son of a Buddhist Priest. When his father dies, he’s sent to the Temple of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto. Mizoguchi is physically unattractive and becomes, in some way, jealous of the beautiful Temple that he loves so much.
Japanese study overview
Kinkakuji is a Japanese movie of 8,701 characters, with 1,137 unique words and 568 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,137 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.
- 金閣golden pavilion×30
- 君you×29
- 私I×24
- 俺I×21
- 僕I×19
- 死ぬto die×16
- 焼くto burn×16
- 女woman×15
- 人person×14
- 脚foot×14
- 有為子Uiko×13
- 思うto think×13
- 溝口Mizokuchi×7
- 老師old master×7
- 鶴川Tsurukawa×7
- 柏木oak tree×6
- 三門large triple gate to temple×4
- 金閣寺Kinkakuji (temple in Kyoto)×3
- 住職chief priest (of a Buddhist temple)×3
- 鹿苑寺Rokuonji (formal name of Kinkakuji)×3