Kotiyama is a swindler and extortionist, the head of a whole gang of crooks, usually posing as a poor monk; once he really took vows, but he was kicked out of the monastery long ago. He is enterprising, smart and not too cruel, so his accomplices love him. Posing as an envoy from the abbot of the Kennei Temple, Kotiama plays a show in front of Lord Matsue with an income of 150,000 koku, and extorts money from him. The film is based on the famous play by Kawatake Mokuami.
Japanese study overview
Ooedo Burai Kouchiyama Soushun is a Japanese movie of 14,389 characters, with 1,737 unique words and 721 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,737 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.
- 両both (hands, parents, sides, etc.)×40
- 旦那master (of a house, shop, etc.)×35
- 言うto say×32
- 河内山Kawauchiyama×31
- お前you×30
- 俺I×29
- 御honorific/polite/humble prefix×28
- 波路sea route×26
- 三three×26
- 直soon×22
- 数馬Kazuma×20
- 松江Matsue (city in Shimane)×19
- 千歳thousand years×18
- 浅茅sparsely growing cogon grass×15
- 丑the Ox (second sign of the Chinese zodiac)×11
- 郭Kaku×11
- 金子Kanako×11
- 上州Jōshuu×9
- 宮崎Miyazaki (city, prefecture)×9
- 拙僧I, as a mere priest×9