Freelance writer Harada Ririko and former lecturer on folklore Shimano Hitoshi go around to Tokyo’s hidden spots with horror stories. They encounter many apparitions in places that everyone knows about in the 23 wards. There is the office lady who wanders the subterranean drains of Shibuya ward in search of her missing mother. The mistress who hides a dead body in Koto ward’s Yume no Shima. The riddle of the Ikebukuro woman and romance in old age. The secret of the female CEO who encounter an apparition in a late night taxi plying Minato ward. The doctor’s wife whose fate is at the mercy of Itabashi ward’s tree which is supposed to severe ties between man and woman. The mystery of a woman and the Suzugamori execution grounds related to a crime scene in Shinagawa ward.
Japanese study overview
Tokyo Nijusan-ku Onna is a Japanese drama of 20,771 characters, with 1,825 unique words and 849 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,825 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.
- 私I×130
- 君you×51
- 言うto say×37
- 場所place×30
- 人person×27
- 池袋Ikefukuro×26
- 女woman×25
- 彼女she×24
- 思うto think×23
- 榎Japanese hackberry (Celtis sinensis var. japonica)×23
- 東京Tokyo×20
- お母さんmother×19
- 暗渠subterranean drain×18
- 薫Isao×12
- 通り魔事件random attack×12
- 阿久根Akune×11
- お台場Odaiba (artificial island in Tokyo Bay)×11
- 澪waterway×10
- 花苗flower seedling×9
- 澪Mio×9