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
られる21.68
フロントガラス25.54
まま22.40
低位22.98
22.13
銘柄25.09
22.43
蜜柑25.26
兄ちゃん23.55
四十23.76
気持ち22.61
21.89
22.23
のに22.21
運転席24.67
22.55
22.53
後部座席24.78
だが21.83
一双23.97
気がつく23.38
それはそれで23.69
24.27
丁寧23.39
その儘22.51
頷く22.55
22.69
22.53
泣き23.33
借り23.40
知る22.11
ても21.96
だろうか22.42
じゃない22.26
セブン25.02
やる22.13
男たち23.49
立つ22.58
土曜日24.51
じゃ無いか22.84
近所23.94
23.14
ては22.43
置く22.56
切る22.91
なの22.22
幸せ22.99
夏服25.40
全部22.88
突き刺さる23.46
自分21.91
手首23.69
止まる22.95
一年23.42
大きい22.90
見え22.91
恨み23.70
今日は22.66
場所22.27
22.44
聞く21.95
22.74
射手23.08
22.90
見る22.00
それから22.79
やっと23.21
分かる22.00
23.69
そうだ22.18
訊く23.56
さっき22.78
消える22.71
話す22.73
助手席24.72
雨宿り25.12
誰か32.71
歩度32.23
まで31.84
32.81
32.09
借りる33.60
覗く33.34
31.96
くれる31.97
32.15
店番34.53
って31.78
あの子33.24
梅雨34.72
返す32.90
落ちる32.99
32.09
32.86
しか32.33
では31.75
なのに32.74
ちゃんと32.69
32.30
仏壇35.34

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