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The context to this is a story I'm reading. A high school girl says she was
assigned to make a poster for class that said "たいようさんさん". Her friend, in
response, seemed confused and mused, saying he "wonders if the teacher is
quite old." The girl then gets angry and states _she's_ the one who came up
with it, not the teacher.

With that, I'm confused on what たいようさんさん means. At first, I thought it simply
meant "Sparkling sun". But her friend's response seemed to indicate that
something about it was old-fashioned somehow. I began to look to see if さんさん
was some older equivalent to さま, or if たいようさんさん/太陽さんさん/etc. was in reference
to some old show or song. I wasn't able to find any consistent results, save
for this magical girl anime called "Smile PreCure!" but this story was written
in the early 2000s, a whole decade before that anime came out.

Maybe the answer is simple, or I'm overthinking it, but I'm having trouble
figuring this out. Especially since the way it is written has no kanji, it
makes it slightly more difficult for me to figure out.
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meaning words
Meaning of たいようさんさん
The word is [燦燦](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%87%A6%E7%87%A6-513492).

Japanese of certain generations or above think of the song titled
[愛燦燦](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%84%9B%E7%87%A6%E7%87%A6_\(%E7%BE%8E%E7%A9%BA%E3%81%B2%E3%81%B0%E3%82%8A%E3%81%AE%E6%9B%B2\))
by the legendary singer
[美空ひばり](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BE%8E%E7%A9%BA%E3%81%B2%E3%81%B0%E3%82%8A)
when we hear this word. Although the song was released relatively late in her
career, everything associated with her is considered classic. This could be
why the friend thought someone old came up with the phrase.
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