taru-adjective, adverb taking the 'to' particle
long and balmy spring day
A literary yojijukugo describing a calm, warm, and seemingly endless spring day. Often used in poetic or classical contexts.
On a long, balmy spring day, the flowers in the fields and hills are in full bloom.
He spent the long, balmy spring afternoon dozing on the veranda.
Standard kanji form for this yojijukugo.
Variant with 遅 repeated instead of the iteration mark 々.
From the phrase 春日遅遅 “the spring days lengthen slowly” in the classical Chinese anthology 『詩経』. Japanese commonly writes the repeated element as 遅々.