
木曽馬籠の里を舞台に明治維新の或る側面を描いた歴史小説である.主人公青山半蔵は,代々本陣・庄屋・問屋の三役を兼ねる旧家の跡継ぎ息子.山深い木曽路にも黒船来航の噂が伝わり,旅人の気配ただならぬ頃から物語は始まる.藤村は,維新の下積みとなって働いた人々を描くことを意図してこの大作を書いた. (解説 猪野謙二)
Yoake Mae is a Japanese novel of 749,030 characters, with 22,320 unique words and 2,958 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is expert, 4.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 22,320 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.