The Garden Keeper and the Master

The Garden Keeper and the Master

雲丹屋

Since I was aware of myself, that garden was my workplace and my only place of belonging. I had no other place where I felt I belonged. My promise with the garden's master was twofold: to tend the garden and keep it beautiful, and to hide myself out of sight whenever guests visited. For me, this garden was my entire world, and keeping it beautiful for my master was everything to me. But eventually, the master stopped appearing in the garden…… ——— This is a story about a garden keeper who faithfully obeys their master's orders, never shows themselves to others, and continues to tend the garden. There is absolutely no physical description of the protagonist until the very end! Feel free to read as you wish. ——— I wasn't sure how to categorize the genre, so I apologize if I've miscategorized it. ——— On 8/8/23, I received 1st place within its genre (17th overall) on the Daily Rankings. Thank you so much! [Also posted on Kakuyomu]

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Reading Time
57 min
Words 2,489
Sentences 189
Characters 4,538
Unique Words 842
1-Occurrence Words
568
Unique Kanji 523
1-Occurrence Kanji
263
Avg Word Difficulty 2.08
Avg Sentence Length 13.2

Word List (842 words)

WordFrequencyDifficulty
当初13.47
それなり13.46
我々13.01
怒声14.02
約束13.02
敷き14.66
物語13.37
がら14.21
全然13.10
向く13.30
姿を見せる14.26
壮健15.01
素敵13.41
度々13.93
盗み聞き14.51
生き延びる13.88
見開く13.32
蔑ろ14.33
台無し14.04
拾う13.44
14.08
一人ぼっち14.68
つつも13.23
なよ13.13
ぐらい12.70
なり12.48
居る12.39
最後12.63
染め13.64
今度12.69
懸ける13.35
覚える13.07
何時も12.58
裏手14.25
戻る12.35
成長13.04
落ち葉14.71
一夜14.08
見守る13.22
他愛ない15.00
励み14.35
あなた様14.20
13.75
悲鳴13.14
12.97
隠し13.04
こつこつ14.98
立てる13.28
出し12.32
13.29
青年13.20
郷愁14.86
13.39
歩き13.21
見回す13.29
11.97
ここに12.60
すら12.67
12.13
ホコリ15.05
なれば12.99
王妃13.29
飽き14.01
翌朝13.92
浮気13.94
トゲ14.62
ちっとも14.15
了い13.04
物影15.48
手折る15.29
恭しい14.16
有り難うございました13.41
もう少し13.00
後日13.87
ベトベト15.30
13.85
下さい12.34
だろうか12.42
増やし13.81
12.81
泣きじゃくる14.48
追う13.24
震え13.19
12.73
背の低い14.59
12.23
12.62
映す13.98
刺す13.50
真面目13.25
どうぞ13.16
頷く12.55
子供12.60
11.97
王国12.54
姑く12.89
駆け込む14.16
可憐13.45
身ぐるみ15.00
ちょうど良い13.72
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