Kai
Drama
櫂
1999/05/06
Character count45,253
Word count21,098
Unique words2,811
Words (1-occurrence)1,481
Unique kanji1,056
Kanji (1-occurrence)300
Difficulty beta
Hard
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 count14,287
Word count6,661
Unique words1,472
Words (1-occurrence)811
Unique kanji656
Kanji (1-occurrence)245
Difficulty beta
Hard
Episode 2
Character count15,677
Word count7,327
Unique words1,545
Words (1-occurrence)839
Unique kanji715
Kanji (1-occurrence)259
Difficulty beta
Hard
Episode 3
Character count15,289
Word count7,110
Unique words1,493
Words (1-occurrence)837
Unique kanji703
Kanji (1-occurrence)259
Difficulty beta
Hard