2000/03/01
CharactersCharacter count121,884
Word count53,182
Unique words · 4,868 once
8,958 Unique kanji · 419 once
1,977Avg. sentenceAverage sentence length22.0
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue29.9%
Duration
9 hRatingExternal Rating
61 %娘を亡くした日も、妻を亡くした日も、男は駅に立ち続けた―。心を揺さぶる“やさしい奇蹟”の物語…表題作はじめ、「ラブ・レター」「角筈にて」など8編収録。第117回直木賞受賞作。(解説・北上次郎)
Japanese study overview
Poppoya is a Japanese novel of 121,884 characters, with 8,958 unique words and 1,977 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.7 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 8,958 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×227
- 思うto think×198
- 僕I×177
- 私I×168
- 吾郎Arou×141
- 俺I×113
- ちえ子Chieko×110
- 乙松Otomatsu×103
- 女woman×96
- 知るto know×95
- 父father×88
- 中inside×86
- 良枝Yanji×81
- 蔭山In'yama×57
- 恭一Kyōichi×56
- 祐次Sukeji×54
- 駅長station master×28
- 幌canopy (esp. the cloth or canvas used for it)×26
- 邸residence×24
- 伽羅aloes wood (Taxus cuspidata var. nana)×21