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
覗く33.34
落ちる32.99
32.86
32.15
二人32.19
32.33
聡い34.08
空色34.65
ちゃんと32.69
あの子33.24
ので31.80
仏壇35.34
くれる31.97
梅雨34.72
歩度32.23
見上げる33.03
31.96
言う41.56
43.29
42.66
には41.57
また42.19
のか41.74
タバコ44.29
42.13
けど41.79
42.39
41.60
する41.24
44.51
41.87
だろう41.78
様に41.76
42.85
をして42.06
41.71
はい42.31
持つ42.02
貸し43.38
そして41.87
そう41.75
座る42.78
大丈夫42.38
41.99
この51.58
52.73
売る52.92
常連54.34
なら52.00
51.96
ありがとう52.86
52.73
その51.44
もう52.11
でも51.70
のだ61.65
65.06
来る62.08
61.97
なる61.37
あの62.00
んだ71.80
だから71.99
71.64
71.46
71.86
72.02
して91.31
思う91.61
91.16
だった91.58
れる101.22
101.91
101.48
111.29
111.38
123.28
121.04
こと131.30
141.04
153.37
から151.17
163.87
祖母ちゃん175.75
いる191.00
280.77
お兄ちゃん283.29
290.86
301.41
540.54
600.56
650.48
690.48
740.41
1230.28

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