Sky-Blue Umbrella

Sky-Blue Umbrella

夏生青波(旧なつづきりよ)

Forty years ago, while I was minding my grandmother's tobacco shop, I encountered an older boy standing there with a waiting-for-someone expression on his face. He was carrying what he said was a borrowed sky-blue umbrella. This work is also published on Everystar, fujossy, and my own website.

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Statistics

Reading Time
44 min
Words 1,830
Sentences 205
Characters 3,506
Unique Words 695
1-Occurrence Words
467
Unique Kanji 438
1-Occurrence Kanji
227
Avg Word Difficulty 2.18
Avg Sentence Length 8.9

Word List (695 words)

WordFrequencyDifficulty
1230.28
740.41
690.48
650.48
600.56
540.54
301.41
290.86
280.77
お兄ちゃん283.29
いる191.00
祖母ちゃん175.75
163.87
から151.17
153.37
141.04
こと131.30
123.28
121.04
111.38
111.29
れる101.22
101.91
101.48
思う91.61
91.16
だった91.58
して91.31
だから71.99
71.86
72.02
んだ71.80
71.46
71.64
65.06
なる61.37
あの62.00
来る62.08
61.97
のだ61.65
52.73
売る52.92
52.73
ありがとう52.86
もう52.11
なら52.00
常連54.34
その51.44
でも51.70
51.96
この51.58
42.13
座る42.78
様に41.76
タバコ44.29
のか41.74
そう41.75
41.71
持つ42.02
する41.24
そして41.87
をして42.06
44.51
42.39
42.66
には41.57
だろう41.78
42.85
言う41.56
また42.19
貸し43.38
41.87
けど41.79
43.29
大丈夫42.38
41.99
はい42.31
41.60
まで31.84
よう32.31
毎日33.21
待つ32.41
では31.75
くれる31.97
店番34.53
椅子33.07
31.96
32.33
32.86
梅雨34.72
空色34.65
32.81
少年32.80
32.30
32.09
二人32.19
覗く33.34
31.97
なのに32.74
考える32.30
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