Shonosuke Furukehashi (Hiroshi Tamaki) is a young samurai and the second son of Sozaemon (Bunchin Katsura) of Togane Domain, Kazusa Province. Sozaemon serves as an attendant, but one day, he is suddenly suspected of accepting bribes. Forged documents written in handwriting startlingly identical to his offer incontrovertible evidence. Framed for accepting bribes he knows nothing about, Sozaemon commits ritual suicide for his “crime”. Shonosuke’s elder brother Katsunosuke (Satoshi Hashimoto), an assistant instructor at the domain’s training hall, is placed under house arrest. Because of that, Shonosuke leaves for Edo alone in order to clear the name of his beloved father.
Japanese study overview
Sakura Housara is a Japanese movie of 10,818 characters, with 1,291 unique words and 573 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.8 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,291 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 私I×50
- 笙traditional Japanese wind instrument resembling panpipes×41
- 様Mr×33
- 事thing×32
- 父father×26
- 古橋Kohashi×24
- お前you×23
- 書くto write×22
- 介shellfish×18
- 和香Aika×18
- 父上father×16
- 方direction×16
- 代書屋notary public×10
- 坂崎Sakasaki×9
- 治兵衛Jihee×7
- 国元one's home×6
- 証文bond×5
- 読み物reading matter×5
- 波野Namino×5
- 押込Oshigome×5