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
ので31.80
ちゃんと32.69
聡い34.08
考える32.30
椅子33.07
32.09
32.30
まで31.84
31.97
誰か32.71
ここ32.11
店番34.53
くれる31.97
見上げる33.03
って31.78
32.81
返す32.90
大丈夫42.38
41.99
には41.57
タバコ44.29
41.60
けど41.79
41.87
する41.24
41.71
そして41.87
のか41.74
そう41.75
42.85
貸し43.38
42.13
はい42.31
また42.19
42.66
持つ42.02
様に41.76
44.51
42.39
をして42.06
座る42.78
言う41.56
だろう41.78
43.29
その51.44
でも51.70
なら52.00
もう52.11
52.73
51.96
52.73
常連54.34
この51.58
売る52.92
ありがとう52.86
なる61.37
あの62.00
のだ61.65
61.97
来る62.08
65.06
71.46
だから71.99
71.64
んだ71.80
71.86
72.02
して91.31
だった91.58
91.16
思う91.61
101.48
れる101.22
101.91
111.38
111.29
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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