雪の透く袖

鈴木鼓村 · 3,151 characters · 14 paragraphs

HOW HARD THE WRITING IS

Rare kanji

Many of the kanji are outside the common 常用漢字 set, and the sentences run long. Slow going even with a big vocabulary.

How this is counted

Many of the kanji are outside the common 常用漢字 set, and the sentences run long. Slow going even with a big vocabulary.

  • How much of the page is kanji41% of the script on the page · 24% of this band
  • How long the sentences run138 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.8 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 24% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list11% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon13% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 21% of this band

Its 501 different kanji, by when they are taught

67%
Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.
22%
Taught later at school — the rest of 常用漢字.
11%
Not on the common list — name characters, and characters outside 常用漢字 altogether.

Counted over the 501 different characters the book uses, each once — not over how often you meet them, so a character used once weighs the same as one used on every page. The five bars higher up count kanji two different ways: “How late those kanji are taught” counts every appearance, so the characters on every page weigh most, while “Kanji outside the common list” is the last figure in this chart, counted the same each-character-once way. The published list placed 95% of those 501 characters. The rest are counted as outside 常用漢字, which is what absence means in a complete list — so the smaller that figure, the more of this chart is the list's gaps rather than the book's.

Counted over 2,893 characters of Japanese script and 1,825 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,002 appear in the frequency list behind this. The rest are not counted rather than rare: the list only reaches so far.

Tatoeba Japanese sentence export (tatoeba-jpn): 32980 lexemes over 2497247 counted words. Short, learner-contributed conversational sentences, largely translated from English. Not prose.

Which kanji it uses was judged against a published list of 2,999 characters and the school year each one is taught in. “The common list” above is 常用漢字, the characters Japanese schooling covers; a character the list places outside those school years — a name character, or one it does not carry at all — counts as outside it. “How late those kanji are taught” counts every time a character appears, so the characters on every page weigh most; “Kanji outside the common list” counts each different character once, however often the book uses it.

582
distinct words
in the whole book

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WHAT THESE NUMBERS ARE COUNTED OVER

Counted over 1,825 word occurrences that resolve to a dictionary entry, 81% of everything the parser found in this text. The rest is punctuation, numerals and names, which have no dictionary entry to know. A compound like 高校生 is counted as its parts, because that is how it is carded.

FIRST LINES

古びた手帳を繰ると、明治廿二年の秋、私は東北の或聯隊に軍曹をして奉職していたことがあった。丁度その年自分は教導団を卒業した、まだうら若い青年であった。　当時、その聯隊の秋季機動演習は、会津の若松の近傍で、師団演習を終えて、後、我聯隊はその地…

WHERE THIS TEXT CAME FROM

Transcribed and proofread by volunteers at 青空文庫, and reproduced here under the terms of its 図書カード, which records the edition this was set from and who checked it.

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