夕焼け (Yuujake) - Sunset

Today at around 16:15 local time I witnessed one of most impressive sunsets in my life. The japanese 夕焼け is composed from the kanji 夕 (yuu, evening) and 焼く(yaku, bake/roast). The later one is also used for an other very important japanese word: 焼き鳥 (yaki tori, "burned bird") is grilled chicken on a stick. Very delicious.

After seeing this sunset the kanji made a lot of sense. In the beginning it looked like the sky was burning a little bit, just enough to roast that deep hanging cloud.


As the cloud was quite dark already - not to burn anything - the sky only burned with little heat for about five minutes. But as the cloud wasn't well done after 10 minutes, the sky rather quickly switched to a bigger flame.


Sometimes reality is really impressive!