Botchan

Novel·坊っちゃん
Botchan
1950/01/01
Characters82,384
Word count38,585
Unique words
5,719
Unique kanji
1,748
Avg. sentence29.3
Difficulty ≈ Hard
Dialogue14.2%
Duration
6 h

夏目漱石 -- 慶応3年1月5日(新暦2月9日)江戸牛込馬場下横町に生まれる。本名は夏目金之助。帝国大学文科大学(東京大学文学部)を卒業後、東京高等師範学校、松山中学、第五高等学校などの教師生活を経て、1900年イギリスに留学する。帰国後、第一高等学校で教鞭をとりながら、1905年処女作「吾輩は猫である」を発表。1906年「坊っちゃん」「草枕」を発表。1907年教職を辞し、朝日新聞社に入社。そして「虞美人草」「三四郎」などを発表するが、胃病に苦しむようになる。1916年12月9日、「明暗」の連載途中に胃潰瘍で永眠。享年50歳であった。(青空文庫図書カードより)

Japanese study overview

Botchan is a Japanese novel of 82,384 characters, with 5,719 unique words and 1,748 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.8 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 5,719 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.

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