The weather is like a lie in the rainy season.  May is over today, and it’s June from tomorrow.  The rainy season is yet to come every year, and it should be the best early summer season of the year like today, so it is natural.  They say that autumn is the best sunset, or midsummer is the best, but the setting sun in the rainy season, when the dust and dirt in the atmosphere are washed away by the rainy season, is also exceptional.  Everyone recognizes the beauty of the setting sun,  from east to west, from ancient times to today.  The “three major sunsets in the world” are the sunsets in Kushiro, Bali, and Manila Bay, but no, some say that the sunset seen from Santorini in the Aegean Sea is the most beautiful in the world, while others say that the setting sun in the bright red Gobi Desert robbed their souls.  If you travel the world, the sunset in each land is the best for that person. The sunset in the photo is the sunset over Nishi Izu, which is also the best in the world.

梅雨が嘘の様な天気が続いています。今日で５月もお終い、明日からもう６月です。例年なら梅雨はまだこれからで、今日の様な一年でいちばんいい初夏の季節を迎えているはずですから当たり前といえば当たり前。夕日といえば、秋がいちばんだとか、いや真夏がいちばんだとか言いますが、大気のちりや埃が梅雨の雨に洗い落とされた梅雨の晴れ間の夕日も格別です。古今東西、夕日の美しさは誰しもが認めています。「世界三大夕日」と言って、釧路、バリ島、マニラ湾の夕日をあげますが、いや、エーゲ海に浮かぶサントリーニ島から見る夕日が世界で一番美しいとか、真っ赤に染まったゴビ砂漠の夕日に魂を奪われたとか、世界を旅すればその土地それぞれの夕日がいちばんなんです。写真の夕日は西伊豆に沈む夕日ですが、これもまた世界一です。