Natsumi wants to become a photographer. She takes a bike which her late father left behind and goes to a forest to find a firefly she saw with her father. In the forest, Natsumi meets old mother Yasu and old son Jizo. They run a general store. Natsumi learns how to live in nature from them. She has happy summer days there. One day, Jizo tells her that he became estranged from his son in the past.
Japanese study overview
Natsumi no Hotaru is a Japanese movie of 9,979 characters, with 972 unique words and 434 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 972 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.
- 夏美Natsumi×151
- 慎吾Shingo×78
- シャッター音(camera) shutter sound×61
- 拓也Takuya×58
- 恵三Ezou×53
- 地蔵Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld)×32
- 俺I×28
- 雲月Ungetsu×27
- お父さんfather×18
- 言うto say×17
- 写真photograph×16
- 音sound×15
- 美也子Miyako×6
- 飯田Iita×5
- 公英Kimie×5
- 風鈴wind chime×4
- 忠男Tadao×3
- 私I×15
- 思うto think×14
- 帰るto return×11