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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Statistics

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
頷く12.55
気12.13
それなり13.46
時々13.53
乗せる13.07
働き13.64
打ち壊す15.35
我々13.01
頬12.86
映す13.98
使う12.10
承知13.43
門口15.84
物心14.35
主人公13.33
様子12.34
刺す13.50
ルール13.54
偉い13.69
つい13.19
欲しい12.46
イ14.17
お立ち15.31
落ち葉14.71
方法12.86
ながら11.91
貴婦人14.19
ちっとも14.15
人がましい16.29
有り難うございました13.41
抱く12.83
イタズラ14.49
皆12.30
なぁ12.56
こうして12.83
焔14.06
行く11.99
子供達13.31
恋13.39
貰える13.04
通う13.42
八つ12.93
腫れ上がる14.99
懸12.62
普段12.97
としても12.63
畳む14.31
内容12.74
とは11.95
好き12.59
跪く13.81
達11.88
やっぱり12.64
思いつく13.34
揃い14.05
熟す13.95
冗談13.17
寄り13.93
話しかける13.15
体操14.26
勇気13.56
追って13.40
盗み聞き14.51
夕暮れ時14.77
度々13.93
高鳴る14.26
手折る15.29
見送る13.37
望むところ14.41
残す12.85
やろう13.16
もう少し13.00
その先13.57
球根15.13
そんな11.84
なんだ12.26
ぼんやり13.52
子供12.60
のです12.21
浮気者15.17
感嘆13.80
薬草13.50
2つ13.66
明日12.80
雑草14.17
全然13.10
けれども13.41
差し込む13.84
ごと13.29
伝える12.98
取り13.16
川13.27
取り壊す15.35
楽しむ13.09
意識12.77
民衆13.87
行き13.32
性別13.80
手塩15.15
考える12.30

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