初夏の訪れ告げるクリンソウ　中禅寺湖で見頃　赤紫色やピンク色など可憐に咲き誇る　(2024年6月9日)

Evening primrose signals the coming of summer The best time to see Chuzenji Lake Beautiful flowers in red purple and pink (2024/06/09)

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栃木県日光市の中禅寺湖では、初夏の訪れを告げるクリンソウの花が見頃となっています。　
At Chuzenji Lake in Nikko City, Tochigi Prefecture, primrose blooms signal the coming of summer.
中禅寺湖の西の端にある千手ケ浜には、1ヘクタールに及ぶクリンソウの群生地があります。
Senjugahama, on the western edge of Lake Chuzenji, is home to a 1-hectare concentration of primroses.
クリンソウは茎の周りに花が円状に数段重なって咲く様子が特徴です。　
The characteristic feature of primrose is that the flowers bloom in many layers in a circle around the stem.
五重の塔などの頂上にある「九輪」という飾りに似ていることが名前の由来とされています。　
The name is said to come from its resemblance to the nine-ring decoration on the top of a five-story pagoda.
この日は朝早くからたくさんの観光客が訪れ、赤紫色やピンク色など色とりどりの可憐な花を楽しんでいました。
On this day, many tourists come to visit early in the morning and enjoy flowers of all colors, from red purple to pink.
「きれいです」
"It's beautiful."
「ちょうど良く咲いてますね」
“It's a very beautiful bloom.”
「すごいきれいで、もう天国に来たような感じ。天国はこんなかなって…、素晴らしい。初めて来ました」　
"It's so beautiful, I feel like I've arrived in paradise. I thought paradise would be like this...It's amazing. This is my first time here."
今年は例年並みの先月末に咲き始め、今月20日ごろまでは楽しめるということです。
This year the flowers started blooming at the end of last month, as usual, and can be enjoyed until around the 20th of this month.

栃木県日光市の中禅寺湖では、初夏の訪れを告げるクリンソウの花が見頃となっています。　

市

City

日光

Sunlight

県

Territory (pre-taika: under the yamato court; heian: under a provincial governor, etc.); countryside

告げる

To tell, to inform, to announce; to indicate, to signal, to mark

花

Flower, blossom, bloom, petal; cherry blossom; beauty; blooming (esp. of cherry blossoms); ikebana; japanese playing cards; (the) best

見頃

Best time to see

訪れ

Visit, call; arrival (e.g. of spring), advent, coming, appearance; news, tidings, word

初夏

Early summer; fourth month of the lunar calendar
中禅寺湖の西の端にある千手ケ浜には、1ヘクタールに及ぶクリンソウの群生地があります。

端

Fraction, odd sum; loose change; low class female servant

地

Earth, ground, land, soil; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)

及ぶ

To reach, to amount to, to befall, to happen to, to extend; to be up to the task, to come up to; to compare with, to be a match (for); to commit (a crime); to require (to do) (usu. used in the negative)

西

West

浜

Beach, seashore; captured pieces (in the game of go), captured stones; yokohama; riverbank, riverside

ヘクタール

hectare

群生

growing en masse in a location (plants); living gregariously (animals, people); all animate creation
クリンソウは茎の周りに花が円状に数段重なって咲く様子が特徴です。　

周り

Circumference, girth; surroundings, neighbourhood, neighborhood, vicinity

特徴

Feature, trait, characteristic, peculiarity, distinction

円

Yen, japanese monetary unit; circle

様子

State, state of affairs, situation, circumstances; appearance, look, aspect; sign, indication

数

Several, a number of; number, numeral, figure; destiny, fate; law

段

Step, stair, (flight of) steps, (row of) stitches, columns (of print); grade, rank, level; counter for breaks in written language (or speech, etc.)

状

Shape, state; letter, correspondence

茎

Stalk, stem

咲く

To bloom

花

Flower, blossom, bloom, petal; cherry blossom; beauty; blooming (esp. of cherry blossoms); ikebana; japanese playing cards; (the) best
五重の塔などの頂上にある「九輪」という飾りに似ていることが名前の由来とされています。　

頂上

Top, summit, peak

飾り

Decoration

名前

Name, full name; given name, first name

似

Takes after (his mother)

由来

Origin, source, history, derivation, reason, destiny

九輪

kurin (nine vertically stacked rings of a pagoda finial), pagoda finial

五重の塔

five-storied pagoda
この日は朝早くからたくさんの観光客が訪れ、赤紫色やピンク色など色とりどりの可憐な花を楽しんでいました。

客

Guest, visitor; customer, client, shopper, spectator, audience, tourist, sightseer, passenger

日

Day, days; sun, sunshine, sunlight; case (esp. unfortunate), event

観光

Sightseeing

ピンク

Pink; erotic (usually used in relation to the sex industry), blue, pornographic

赤

Red, crimson, scarlet; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); red (i.e. communist); red light; red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading), (in) the red; complete, total, perfect, obvious; copper

朝

Dynasty; reign; period, epoch, age; court; north korea

色

Colour, color; complexion; appearance, look; love, lust, sensuality, love affair, lover; kind, type, variety

花

Flower, blossom, bloom, petal; cherry blossom; beauty; blooming (esp. of cherry blossoms); ikebana; japanese playing cards; (the) best

可憐

Sweet (e.g. young girls, flowers blooming), touchingly lovely, cute; pitiful, pitiable

色とりどり

Multicolored, multicoloured, varicolored, varicoloured; variety, miscellany

訪れ

Visit, call; arrival (e.g. of spring), advent, coming, appearance; news, tidings, word

早くから

Early on, earlier on, from early

紫色

Violet
「きれいです」
「ちょうど良く咲いてますね」

良く

Nicely, properly, well, skillfully; frequently, often
「すごいきれいで、もう天国に来たような感じ。天国はこんなかなって…、素晴らしい。初めて来ました」　

来

Next (year, etc.); since (last month, etc.)

感じ

Feeling, sense, impression

素晴らしい

Wonderful, splendid, magnificent

天国

Paradise, heaven, kingdom of heaven

こんな

Such (about something or someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or about ideas expressed by the speaker), like this

初めて

For the first time; only after ... is it ..., only when ... do you ..
今年は例年並みの先月末に咲き始め、今月20日ごろまでは楽しめるということです。

日

Day, days; sun, sunshine, sunlight; case (esp. unfortunate), event

末

The end of; powder

今年

This year

今月

This month

先月

Last month

始め

Beginning, start, outset, opening; first (in line, etc.); origin; such as ..., not to mention ..

楽しめる

To be able to enjoy

例年

Average (normal, ordinary) year; every year, annually