When the national idol Kusakabe Yuka suddenly retired from the entertainment business, it shocked the world and it devastated teenager Hata Kosaku. Kosaku was Yuka’s biggest fan and her departure left him depressed. His classmates at the Tamo Agriculture School finally are able to get him to leave his room and attend his class, but to everyone’s amazement, Kusakabe Yuka (her stage name) comes into the class under the name Kinoshita Ringo as a transfer student. Kosaku realizes he has the once in a lifetime opportunity to get to personally know his dream girl and, together with his group of friends, try to find out why she is here and become closer than just classmates.
Japanese study overview
Nourin is a Japanese novel of 1,366,103 characters, with 32,038 unique words and 2,728 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 32,038 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 言うto say×2,360
- 農farming×2,276
- 林檎Ringo×2,218
- 継ぎpatch×1,815
- 良田Iida×1,607
- 思うto think×1,289
- 先生teacher×1,001
- 農業agriculture×974
- 中inside×914
- 作るto make×873
- 自分myself×805
- 食べるto eat×746
- 金上Kanagami×624
- 若旦那young master×467
- 耕作Kōsaku×446
- 林太郎Rintarō×426
- 木下Kioroshi×344
- 農業高校agricultural high school×269
- 岐阜Gifu (city, prefecture)×255
- 農林agriculture and forestry×175