Like the opera, the story is set in Nagasaki in the early 1900s. It portrays the ups and downs of a young woman known as Butterfly, who lost her parents at a young age and has become an apprentice geisha. She later meets a naval officer and gets married, though the officer intends for the marriage to last only while he is stationed in Nagasaki.
Japanese study overview
Chouchou-san: Saigo no Bushi no Musume is a Japanese drama of 11,263 characters, with 1,506 unique words and 723 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is expert, 4.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,506 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.
- 様Mr×50
- 蝶Jō×33
- 事thing×22
- 蝶々butterfly×21
- 水月water and the Moon×19
- 楼tower×19
- 待つto wait×18
- 活水Ikumi×15
- 蝶butterfly×13
- 人person×12
- 英語English (language)×12
- 末石Sueishi×11
- 伊作Isa×11
- 女学校girls' school×9
- 絹Kinu×8
- 春蝶Shunchō×8
- 深堀digging deeply (below the surface)×7
- 春駒horse put out to pasture in spring×7
- 葉隠れhiding in the leaves×6
- 襄Jō×6