A single bullet cuts through Kyoto in the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate right before the restoration of imperial rule. Who plotted to assassinate Tokugawa Yoshinobu, who is about to become the last shogun of Japan? Was it the faction wanting to overthrow him or the rebels within the shogunate? Mutual enemies Sakamoto Ryoma, the wandering samurai, and Hijikata Toshizo, a deputy leader of the Shinsengumi and vassal of the Tokugawa clan, receive a secret order to track down the culprit. They are given a mere two days.
Japanese study overview
Bakumatsu Aibouden is a Japanese movie of 13,459 characters, with 1,529 unique words and 688 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is expert, 4.1 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,529 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.
- 坂本Karumera×56
- お前you×38
- 薩摩Satsuma (former province located in the west of present-day Kagoshima Prefecture)×35
- 戦war×35
- 幕府shogunate×30
- 大政奉還restoration of imperial rule×27
- 新選組Shinsengumi×25
- 言うto say×23
- 西郷Saigou×21
- 長州Chōshū×19
- 土方construction worker×19
- 将軍general×18
- 会津Aizu×16
- 討幕attacking the shogunate×13
- 上様emperor×13
- 伊東Itō×13
- 勅命imperial command×11
- 岩倉Iwakura×10
- 薩長Satsuma and Chōshū (clan alliance)×9
- 百姓farmer×9