Use of 差し込む to describe the sun


I have this sentence:

> **建物と建物の間から差し込む** 太陽が音もなく世界を赤くにじませる夕方、...
>
> An evening in which the sun **piercing from between buildings** silently
> blurs the world with red.

I'm struggling with what the sun is actually doing, and with the geometry of
the scene.

Is the verb 差し込む normally used to talk about the sun shining or is this just
fancy poetic writing? Is it shining or thrusting or piercing etc?

As for the geometry, it's clear that something is happening **between
buildings** but I'm not sure what. From the use of から I have a picture of the
sun on one side of the buildings shining through a gap. It is the sunlight
**from/から** this gap that is "silently blurring the world in red". Do I have
the correct kind of image? Thanks.




I don't know if the translation is quite appropriate, but it makes sense to
me.

Then granted,

> Is the verb 差し込む normally used to talk about the sun shining or is this just
> fancy poetic writing? Is it shining or thrusting or piercing etc?

It goes without saying **the sun itself** can not **come through** the narrow
gap between the buildings.

So, here sure, it means the **sun light** ( so that I guess the writer used
the word "pierce" in order to express the **sun light** , **not directly but
indirectly**? )

FYI From
**[大辞林](http://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%B7%AE%E3%81%97%E8%BE%BC%E3%82%80%E3%83%BB%E5%B7%AE%E8%BE%BC%E3%82%80%E3%83%BB%E5%B0%84%E3%81%97%E8%BE%BC%E3%82%80-274642#E5.A4.A7.E8.BE.9E.E6.9E.97.20.E7.AC.AC.E4.B8.89.E7.89.88)**

> 差し込む・差込む・射し込む

差し込む is dealt same with **射し** 込む. The verb 射す reminds me of piercing or
penetrating, by arrows personally, so may be the writer used the word
**pierce** because everybody knows sun itself can not come to you
directly.....

From the very source

> （「射し込む」とも書く）光が入ってくる。 「窓から朝日が－・む」

Translated

> ( as is written as 射し込む ) meaning, the sun **light** comes. Ex : 「 The
> morning sun light has begun to be seen at the window. 」

Have a happy day.




I don't know if the translation is quite appropriate, but it makes sense to
me.

Then granted,

> Is the verb 差し込む normally used to talk about the sun shining or is this just
> fancy poetic writing? Is it shining or thrusting or piercing etc?

It goes without saying **the sun itself** can not **come through** the narrow
gap between the buildings.

So, here sure, it means the **sun light** ( so that I guess the writer used
the word "pierce" in order to express the **sun light** , **not directly but
indirectly**? )

FYI From
**[大辞林](http://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%B7%AE%E3%81%97%E8%BE%BC%E3%82%80%E3%83%BB%E5%B7%AE%E8%BE%BC%E3%82%80%E3%83%BB%E5%B0%84%E3%81%97%E8%BE%BC%E3%82%80-274642#E5.A4.A7.E8.BE.9E.E6.9E.97.20.E7.AC.AC.E4.B8.89.E7.89.88)**

> 差し込む・差込む・射し込む

差し込む is dealt same with **射し** 込む. The verb 射す reminds me of piercing or
penetrating, by arrows personally, so may be the writer used the word
**pierce** because everybody knows sun itself can not come to you
directly.....

From the very source

> （「射し込む」とも書く）光が入ってくる。 「窓から朝日が－・む」

Translated

> ( as is written as 射し込む ) meaning, the sun **light** comes. Ex : 「 The
> morning sun light has begun to be seen at the window. 」

Have a happy day.

