Kai
Drama
櫂 1999/05/06
Character count45,292
Word count20,324
Unique words2,839
Words (1-occurrence)1,471
Unique kanji1,058
Kanji (1-occurrence)302
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 count14,300
Word count6,460
Unique words1,496
Words (1-occurrence)821
Unique kanji656
Kanji (1-occurrence)245
Difficulty beta Moderate
Episode 2
Character count15,691
Word count7,042
Unique words1,572
Words (1-occurrence)855
Unique kanji715
Kanji (1-occurrence)259
Difficulty beta Moderate
Episode 3
Character count15,301
Word count6,822
Unique words1,517
Words (1-occurrence)852
Unique kanji703
Kanji (1-occurrence)259
Difficulty beta Moderate