
山奥に忘れられたようにぽつんとある、小さくて古びた一軒の店「たけ屋」と、そこで支え合うように暮らしている母子、ヤスばあちゃんと地蔵じいさん。ぼくと夏美は、夏休みの間ずっと「たけ屋」の離れで暮らしてみる―という、なんとも心躍る展開になったのだけれど...。誰かを想うこと誰かの幸せを願うこと。切なくて、あたたかい、心の故郷の物語。
Natsumi no Hotaru is a Japanese novel of 119,562 characters, with 7,165 unique words and 1,722 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 7,165 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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