
とある居酒屋で、三十七歳のツキコさんは、ビールの肴にと、まぐろ納豆、蓮根のきんぴら、塩らっきょうなどを頼む。すると隣りでも同じように注文する老人が……。さても肴の趣味の合うご老体だと感心していると、その人は高校時代の恩師だと知る。この再会をきっかけに二人は、やがてゆるやかでおだやかで切なくてはかない二人へと深まってゆく……。
Sensei no Kaban is a Japanese novel of 102,311 characters, with 5,991 unique words and 1,462 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 3.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 5,991 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.