Umibe no Kafuka

Novel·海辺のカフカ·Kafka on the Shore
Umibe no Kafuka
2005/01/01
Characters441,368
Word count188,228
Unique words
13,404
Unique kanji
2,017
Avg. sentence22.2
Difficulty Average
Dialogue30.8%
Volumes2
Duration
32 h

「君はこれから世界でいちばんタフな15歳の少年になる」――15歳の誕生日がやってきたとき、僕は家を出て遠くの知らない街に行き、小さな図書館の片隅で暮らすようになった。家を出るときに父の書斎から持ちだしたのは、現金だけじゃない。古いライター、折り畳み式のナイフ、ポケット・ライト、濃いスカイブルーのレヴォのサングラス。小さいころの姉と僕が二人並んでうつった写真……。

Japanese study overview

Umibe no Kafuka is a Japanese novel of 441,368 characters, with 13,404 unique words and 2,017 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 3.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 13,404 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.

Volume 1

Characters218,891
Word count93,068
Unique words
9,698
Unique kanji
1,810
Avg. sentence24.0
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue24.5%
Duration
16 h

Volume 2

Characters222,477
Word count95,160
Unique words
8,623
Unique kanji
1,708
Avg. sentence20.7
Difficulty Average
Dialogue37.0%
Duration
16 h

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Vocabulary highlights

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