1999/01/01
CharactersCharacter count142,299
Word count65,410
Unique words · 5,389 once
9,851 Unique kanji · 423 once
2,021Avg. sentenceAverage sentence length26.4
Difficulty Expert
Dialogue15.5%
Duration
10 hRatingExternal Rating
44 %松山出身の歌人正岡子規と軍人の秋山好古・真之兄弟の三人を軸に、維新から日露戦争の勝利に至る明治日本を描く大河小説。全八冊
Japanese study overview
Saka no Ue no Kumo is a Japanese novel of 142,299 characters, with 9,851 unique words and 2,021 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is expert, 4.3 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 9,851 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
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 好古love of antiquities×424
- 子規lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)×415
- 真之Saneyuki×404
- 明治Meiji era (1868.9.8-1912.7.30)×152
- 年year×146
- 松山Matsuyama (city in Ehime)×145
- 日本Japan×139
- 入るto enter×123
- 騎兵cavalry×121
- 出るto leave×114
- 東京Tokyo×112
- 藩han (estate of a daimyo in the Edo and early Meiji periods)×98
- 子規lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)×68
- 秋山Akiyama×53
- 伊予Iyo (former province located in present-day Ehime Prefecture)×51
- 旧藩former (feudal) domain×51
- 淳Aki×51
- 士官学校military academy×45
- 軍艦warship×39
- 士族family of samurai lineage×39