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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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
分かる22.00
じゃ無いか22.84
やっと23.21
気がつく23.38
運転席24.67
四十23.76
ば21.60
年22.64
頭22.23
間22.43
幸せ22.99
聞こえる22.77
まま22.40
一双23.97
会う22.62
丁寧23.39
ない21.61
助手席24.72
軒24.27
切る22.91
やる22.13
次22.53
崖23.69
その儘22.51
雨宿り25.12
だろうか22.42
日22.53
縛る23.53
置く22.56
男たち23.49
今日は22.66
なんて22.13
ては22.43
訊く23.56
警察23.87
られる21.68
握る23.01
銘柄25.09
夏服25.40
名22.55
さっき22.78
見る22.00
見える22.26
じゃない22.26
後22.36
土曜日24.51
立つ22.58
後部座席24.78
射手23.08
なの22.22
戻る22.35
止まる22.95
空22.69
だが21.83
場所22.27
上げ22.67
てる21.65
のに22.21
低位22.98
一年23.42
借り23.40
在る21.55
呼ぶ22.52
聞く21.95
見え22.91
手首23.69
消える22.71
近所23.94
知る22.11
ても21.96
大きい22.90
気持ち22.61
自分21.91
いい22.05
向こう22.90
可愛い22.81
考える32.30
返す32.90
高校生33.97
木32.81
よう32.31
って31.78
店番34.53
では31.75
誰か32.71
見31.96
ので31.80
椅子33.07
ここ32.11
しか32.33
出32.33
ちゃんと32.69
家32.15
梅雨34.72
なのに32.74
落ちる32.99
毎日33.21
待つ32.41
聡い34.08
借りる33.60

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