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
32.86
高校生33.97
毎日33.21
32.33
待つ32.41
歩度32.23
くれる31.97
二人32.19
仏壇35.34
ちゃんと32.69
31.96
32.30
誰か32.71
って31.78
ので31.80
32.09
あの子33.24
椅子33.07
覗く33.34
手首23.69
出し22.32
土曜日24.51
泣き23.33
見え22.91
じゃ無いか22.84
いい22.05
呼ぶ22.52
切る22.91
縛る23.53
一双23.97
さようなら24.34
場所22.27
警察23.87
られる21.68
田舎23.78
だろうか22.42
22.83
そんな21.84
のに22.21
全部22.88
21.89
スツール25.54
低位22.98
21.60
運転席24.67
なの22.22
夏服25.40
置く22.56
見える22.26
自分21.91
24.27
聞く21.95
大きい22.90
男たち23.49
去る23.02
22.13
恨み23.70
やっと23.21
まま22.40
だが21.83
握る23.01
さっき22.78
そうだ22.18
向こう22.90
丁寧23.39
立つ22.58
22.90
兄ちゃん23.55
それはそれで23.69
助手席24.72
気がつく23.38
なんて22.13
近所23.94
射手23.08
何処22.58
ても21.96
消える22.71
22.74
22.69
22.53
22.64
蜜柑25.26
てる21.65
上げ22.67
今日は22.66
スター24.11
見る22.00
ては22.43
止まる22.95
じゃない22.26
銘柄25.09
戻る22.35
セブン25.02
22.43
話す22.73
と言った22.53
借り23.40
突き刺さる23.46
気持ち22.61
分かる22.00

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