2012/04/20
CharactersCharacter count68,609
Word count31,337
Unique words · 3,839 once
6,571 Unique kanji · 427 once
1,746Avg. sentenceAverage sentence length54.5
Difficulty Expert
Dialogue12.4%
Duration
5 h劣等感とやり場のない怒りを溜め、埠頭の冷凍倉庫で日雇い仕事を続ける北町貫多、19歳。将来への希望もなく、厄介な自意識を抱えて生きる日々を、苦役の従事と見立てた貫多の明日は――。現代文学に私小説が逆襲を遂げた、第144回芥川賞受賞作。後年私小説家となった貫多の、無名作家たる諦観と八方破れの覚悟を描いた「落ちぶれて袖に涙のふりかかる」を併録。（解説・石原慎太郎）
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Japanese study overview
Kueki Ressha is a Japanese novel of 68,609 characters, with 6,571 unique words and 1,746 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is expert, 4.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 6,571 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Vocabulary highlights
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- 貫kan (obs. unit of weight, approx. 3.75 kg, 8.3 lb)×312
- 多multi-×307
- 云うto say×158
- 彼he×143
- 日下部Kusakabe×138
- 方direction×70
- 言うto say×57
- 者person×53
- 思うto think×51
- 自分myself×49
- 男man×43
- 為good×40
- 人足coolie×27
- 田端Tahashi×23
- 美奈子Minako×21
- 結句last line of a poem×18
- 日雇いdaily employment×15
- 克子Kako×15
- 俄かsudden×14
- 荷役handling cargo×11