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
やっと23.21
だろうか22.42
スター24.11
呼ぶ22.52
後部座席24.78
低位22.98
ない21.61
蜜柑25.26
一双23.97
気がつく23.38
近所23.94
在る21.55
23.14
ても21.96
上げ22.67
去る23.02
24.27
やる22.13
突き刺さる23.46
さっき22.78
見え22.91
助手席24.72
会う22.62
自分21.91
縛る23.53
借り23.40
23.69
戻る22.35
スツール25.54
見る22.00
雨宿り25.12
射手23.08
なんて22.13
聞く21.95
分かる22.00
22.53
田舎23.78
握る23.01
22.90
それから22.79
られる21.68
酷い23.02
切る22.91
頷く22.55
見える22.26
大きい22.90
聞こえる22.77
22.69
22.43
四十23.76
22.13
訊く23.56
22.36
のに22.21
いい22.05
だが21.83
出し22.32
それはそれで23.69
土曜日24.51
ては22.43
丁寧23.39
22.44
恨み23.70
止まる22.95
暗い23.20
隅っこ24.42
立つ22.58
21.89
知る22.11
警察23.87
じゃ無いか22.84
可愛い22.81
今日は22.66
22.64
そうだ22.18
男たち23.49
32.81
ちゃんと32.69
覗く33.34
聡い34.08
梅雨34.72
考える32.30
では31.75
なのに32.74
待つ32.41
32.09
32.09
よう32.31
仏壇35.34
ここ32.11
31.97
32.86
空色34.65
と言う31.58
って31.78
32.15
くれる31.97
31.96
ので31.80
あの子33.24

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