Kai
Drama
櫂 1999/05/06
Character count45,285
Word count19,763
Unique words2,823
Unique words used once1,468
Unique kanji1,045
Unique kanji used once299
Difficulty beta Moderate
Episodes3

Kiwa is Iwago’s devoted wife. A former wrestling champion, he has become a ‘zegen’: He buys young girls from poor families and sells them to geisha houses. He is quite successful but Kiwa, although she accepts his money, loathes his work. One day Iwago comes back with a young girl he’s bought from a man who wanted to sell her in China. They adopt her and Kiwa raises her, as a respectable girl, with her two sons. But Iwago wants to manage the career of a singer who becomes his mistress and the situation becomes very tense for the couple.

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Episode 1
Character count14,297
Word count6,252
Unique words1,500
Unique words used once830
Unique kanji656
Unique kanji used once245
Difficulty beta Easy
Episode 2
Character count15,690
Word count6,876
Unique words1,566
Unique words used once849
Unique kanji715
Unique kanji used once259
Difficulty beta Moderate
Episode 3
Character count15,298
Word count6,635
Unique words1,503
Unique words used once848
Unique kanji703
Unique kanji used once259
Difficulty beta Moderate